A college graduate from north america went to canada to work in the oil industry, which led him to become a vegetable farmer and moved china's advanced vegetable shed to canada, unexpectedly becoming a “net-red”。
The young man's name is dong ken yi and his online name is “cooks and vegetables”, using chinese technology in the vegetable sheds built in canada to grow vegetables of good taste and nutritional value that are difficult to eat in canada. He told the journalist: “many of my vegetables are sold to local chinese, and many say they taste good, and i am particularly successful. I am also proud of the power of chinese farming technology.”
The oil industry is in recession
North-class graduate, "twinning."
Dong jian yi, a person from tangshan hebei, was admitted to the department of geology at beijing university in 2000 to study undergraduate and postgraduate studies and, after graduating in 2007, joined schlumberger, the world's largest oilfield technical service company, in the oil industry。
At the end of 2014, dong kenji and his wife arrived in calgary, canada, and wanted to work for the oil company. Unexpectedly, they are catching up with the local oil industry. Tung kian-kun decided to move on to something else. The transition was not easy, he had done some research, and many people had done what seemed good, and the competition was particularly intense and it was difficult to find opportunities。
Dong jian yi is an alumni of north university
Having consulted a great deal of information, dong ken yi learned that canadian land is particularly suitable for agricultural production, that calgary is black, and that he has consulted with professors at local agricultural universities, where the soil is grade a and is one of the best in the world, with one of the greatest advantages of farming. After a little preparation, dong ken yi decided to plant food in canada。
Although canadian soil is suitable for vegetable growing, the long winter is long at latitude north, and the planting of vegetables is a major climate challenge. “the winter in calgary is particularly long, sometimes snowing in mid-september and not until early april of the following year. It may have been frozen late in may, but it began again at the end of august, with a period of about 100 days. Even a 100-day window can grow vegetables, the challenge is particularly great.”
Dong jianji told the press that, for climatic reasons, there had been very few people growing food, and that local food was imported mainly from other parts of canada and from the united states, mexico, “it's not easy to grow, but i think there must be a market, and i wanted to try, so i took the road.”
The local vegetable sheds don't eat well
Returning to study vegetable shed technology
Canada is a large agricultural country, and in ontario there are a large number of super-sized vegetable sheds, although their technology and chinese vegetable sheds are very different, generally using dutch greenhouse shed technology. This vegetable shed is grown on a large scale, using natural gas heating during the winter, lighting plants with increased light, artificially increasing carbon dioxide content, unlimited supply of water fertilizers, various technologies to promote plant growth and increase production per unit of time and area。
Dong kenji said, “the dutch shed has been so long for vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers, each producing three to four times as much as i do, but this technique does not taste well”
Dong jian yi is a vegetable farmer
The dutch sheds are operating at high cost and most of them are at a profit-and-loss balance point, with a very low profit margin and a slight volatility that cannot be sustained. So they did everything possible to scale up and increase production. Dong ken yi thinks this is an idea for industrialization. After industrialization and even factoryization of the agricultural industry, production was valued only for quality, and vegetables were grown without taste and nutritional value。
Dong jianyi and his wife grew up in the country in the city and never touched the vegetables. But they had problems with the land, so they decided to do it。
Before proceeding with the construction of the shed, dong jian yi went to winnipeg, manitoba, where he studied for six months, where a chinese vegetable shed was built and he went to work for free. He also returned to visit lifelight and vegetable-producing areas in the north-east, where he saw vegetable sheds blooming in china and wanted to challenge the move of chinese advanced shed technology to canada。
All materials are imported from china
I used my basic education when i was a kid
In june 2018, mr. And mrs. Tung ken yi officially opened a farm。
The construction of vegetable sheds in china was simple, as a professional construction team and production plant would allow the construction of a shed in two or three months。
In canada, dong ken yi was the first to build a chinese vegetable shed without a chain of upstream and downstream industries, all of which he had to solve alone。
At first, he wanted to bring in a few workers from the country, but his visa was denied. He could not find a local worker to help build it, because no one could do it. It is also impossible to find an engineering company because of the high cost and limited budget. There are a wide variety of tools available to build the sheds in the country, and canada does not have to do so on its own. If welding is not possible, welding is done without scaffolding or cranes。
Tung ken yi's vegetable shed is green
Tung jian yi's sheds follow the traditional chinese construction principles and are 100 metres long, 10 metres wide and 6 metres high. The wall is 4 metres high and 1 metre wide, and the soil is filled with heat. The large sheds were warmed on double floors and at night the cotton was kept warm, reaching 3 tons by weight alone. The dutch shed used heat during the winter to remove snow, which was costly, and dong kenji designed to remove snow by vibration。
“all materials in the shed were imported from china, including steel pipes and hot cotton, as they could not be purchased in canada. It is also a source of particular pride to me that china, as a major manufacturing power, is able to produce such good professional material. As chinese, the construction of vegetable sheds in canada can only be achieved with the strong supply capacity of china.”
Dong jian yi is busy carrying vegetables
Basic education in the country has also been very helpful to dong ken jian: “i have built a large shed for many of the technologies i have invented, china has a solid foundation in basic education, we have learned a great deal about some of the basic physico-chemical biology involved in farms at the secondary level, and i sometimes need to make a tool of my own, which is easy to understand, and then, in the canadian context, knows what to do. Some of the biological knowledge learned in the past will soon be used."
It's not easy. It's been a month. Because the local winter days were particularly short, he and his wife were unable to eat at noon, all of which were convenient noodles, in order to complete the work as quickly as possible. There were problems, which often caused people to collapse, but they were holding on to their teeth and solved whatever problems they encountered。
Organic tomatoes grown in chinese sheds
Many children taste "natural"
Their first hut was finally built in the summer of 2019。
The sheds were very effective, with temperatures reaching less than 40 degrees celsius in the winter of calgary, and the sheds of dong kensaku remained at more than 20 degrees celsius。
When he was growing food, he studied everywhere, asking his friends in china, looking for information online, and so on, “well, there are plenty of self-media in the country, especially among the three agriculture groups. I'll follow my studies and find out myself. After two to three years, we've found a way to plant the vegetables.”
He grows organically, does not use fertilizer pesticides, and plants such as tomatoes are high in taste and short of demand. His shed was operating at an overall low cost and could earn money even if it hired workers。
Dong jianyi said, "the tomatoes that the locals bought at the supermarket didn't taste until they tasted them. In particular, some children, before visiting my shed, said they didn't like tomatoes. They ate my tomatoes and found out it tasted like this.”
Dong kenji and his little tomatoes
In this case, tung is deeply impressed by his persistence: “many children in western countries, such as canada, now do not eat the tomatoes that taste naturally, and in this generation they taste little. The world has been transformed by the industrialization and factoryization of the agricultural industry, and i feel that agriculture is going in the wrong direction.”
At present, tung is the largest commercial passive solar vegetable shed in alberta, canada, where, despite severe weather conditions, double sheeting, thick earth walls and cotton are still able to store the heat of sunlight, allowing vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, peppers, spinach, cabbage and maize to grow naturally. In his belief that low energy consumption and no contamination in such sheds would also help reduce emissions and greenhouse effects, he said: “now that my vegetable supply is short of demand, the customers have to line up, and they can eat fresh organic vegetables without a supermarket or other channels. Some customers assess that my vegetables are good and of high nutritional value, and that they all like to eat.”
Chinese vegetable sheds are famous
They're both online
Chinese vegetable sheds are slowly becoming famous, and many white people are visiting. He said, “i am a young man and a small farmer who can make a success of vegetables.” a local agricultural expert said that he saw the latest vegetable growing technology in dong’s shed and realized that canada was far behind in that regard。
Dong kenji is not conservative and intends to provide technical output. Dong jianji told the local whites that there are millions of such huts in china, all run by small farmers. So chinese eat mainly locally produced vegetables, even if they're in the south or in the north, they're closer, unlike canada, to import from countries like the united states and mexico. The main reason why chinese are happier than canadians to eat vegetables is because of different development patterns. The same is true of vegetables, including food. Canada is home to a vast population of tens of thousands of acres of large farmers, small farmers are being annexed, young farmers are becoming fewer and the average age of farmers is over 50。
“if my shed were to be expanded, it would be easier for small farmers and family growers, without the highly concentrated model of the dutch shed, it would certainly be of great benefit to them, while china's technology and products have increased their sales and could be mutually beneficial.”
The husband and wife of dong jian yi are now the local “net-red” and he is known as the “trouble food” and the wife is wang gogo. A chinese is a client of theirs, but it's not until recently that i found out that dong kenji made it himself. Another chinese said, "how can you succeed if you can't do it? China's young people are not the best, i'm a silicon valley engineer, and i'm crying!” a white man said, “i admire your courage and determination, which is why china has been so successful.” he also reminded dong jian yi to apply for a patent as soon as possible, in order to prevent them from being copied and regnawed. "hello, mr. And mrs. Wang! Your husband and wife have inherited the chinese entrepreneurship and admired you and your wife's persistence and cooperation!" hope that after hard work, there will be a good harvest and business will flourish.”
Mr. And mrs. Dong
They now basically maintain the rhythm of sunrise and sunset. The construction of the second shed was suspended because of the heavy snow cover, pending a warmer weather. Every day, around 8. 30 a. M., solar energy was released into the shed, where he collected cotton and then ate breakfast. Eating and feeding the chickens, they go to the sheds and pour water and ventilation. He told reporters: “although the journey has been hard to imagine, it has a sense of accomplishment that has given me the impetus to do this and to think that it will do better.”
