How far is it from the field to the mouth
The answer can be over 20,000 kilometres (from chile to china) or six years (from planting to harvesting time)。
One person was not satisfied with this answer and tried to make a difference。
He is zhang jae-hee, a professor at the college of agriculture and biology at shanghai transport university. But more often, he prefers to be called "professor prick."。
Zhang jae-hee (left) directed the scene in the trunk forest. In recent years, since the beginning of the list of unaffordable cars, the price of imported cars has been quite high, but the price of imported cars has been a few dozen dollars and a hundred pounds。
Indeed, zhang zhang zhang zhang, the “after 70”, considered these – china is a producer of large fruits such as citrus, apples, pears, peaches, grapes, etc. – but production of high-value-added fruit such as carpentry is very limited, and there are few researchers. As a researcher, zhang is keen to create new knowledge in unknown areas and to provide industry with more support technologies; at the same time, he hopes that the country will produce its own high-quality car plasters that will make more farmers willing to grow and more people able to eat。
With this in mind, as early as 1998, zhang xian xianxi had planted the first car sapling in shanghai and began research. In 2008, after eight years of studying in japan, zhang xianjiang welcomed the temporary drop of many years of research on species such as grapes, monkey peaches, pears, etc., and went to the united states research centre for carpentry industries and research, where he continued postdoctoral research, specialized in carpentry development and reproductive biology, and experienced the development of the carpentry industry。
"professor governor" in the field
After studying back from the united states, zhang was admitted to shanghai university of transport. He didn't put down his "dreams." with project funding from the ministry of agriculture and shanghai city, zhang xianxiang carried out the collection and evaluation of two carpentry seed resources, and began the development of varieties suitable for cultivation in the south and rain-shining models。
In april 2014, zhang xianxi, a pro-poor cadre of the ministry of education, travelled to the western border mountain region of yunnan, where he began a career of more than two years, serving as deputy governor and deputy secretary-general of the state of da lisi and later as deputy governor of the state government of maegen。
The western part of yunnan, with its high sea level, mountainous areas and strong light, is well suited to plant the car. At that time, some places had begun seeding of carpentry, which was no doubt a good opportunity for zhang to conduct in-depth research and to examine how yunnan carpentry was growing。
After a long and in-depth study, zhang was pleased to note that, although local farmers in yunnan had begun growing car tweaks, they had many blind spots about the habits of imported varieties and how to manage them correctly, and thus had failed. At the same time, fruit tree varieties have changed rapidly, but many young locals have gone to urban areas to work, the majority of domestic farmers are elderly, and there is a relative lag in understanding the introduction of new varieties and technologies
The importance and urgency of technical support for agricultural specializations have been greatly appreciated. In order to encourage farmers and help them to screen for good varieties, zhang xianxiang offered special funding from the ministry of education to reward the cadres at the time, buying new varieties of trees to be distributed free of charge to local farmers. He also introduced other new varieties and conducted planting experiments in yunnan。
A new public good
In 2021, zhang zhang welcomed the selection of the national system of modern agricultural technology and he's got a new identity. • specialized expert for the “sangzhou farmer” project of the shanghai overseas development foundation。
In the middle of yunnan rudian county, known as the “rural of cherry in china”, the project has opened a “sun-sung station” to serve the farmers of the local large cherries (car pick-up), hoping to select three high-quality car pick-up varieties suitable for local cultivation and to develop two car pick-up demonstration areas, thereby putting more farmers on the path of family enrichment and boosting the pace of local rural renewal。
Zhang jae-hee attached particular importance to this. Zhang xianxiang took the time to fly from shanghai to yunnan to provide on-site guidance and answer questions to local farmers about the problems that had arisen in the management of carpentry。
Local farmers also found that their fruit trees were particularly good-looking when they listened to professor zhang. As a result, every time a photo was taken, the farmers held him around, asking him questions and holding his hand tight。
This is due to zhang's acceptance of the concept and model of the “santang help farmer” as a public good. “the project uses a mechanism to match technology and finance, to connect markets, before, during and after childbirth, and thus to achieve a chain-based and precise support of industry + technology + finance + markets, which offers good solutions to the problems of viability and the last kilometre.”
Although the project is still in its infancy, zhang is pleased that, in the context of the current situation of rural production in the country, such a model can play an important role in “the flames of the stars can fade”。
