China News Service, Lhasa, November 3, title: Nima Tashi in the eyes of Tibetan farmers: He is the "Doctor of Barley" rooted in the field
Author Zhang Wei
"In 2013, I saw him for the first time. He didn't look like a peasant in his clothes, but he was more punctual than the peasant during spring planting and autumn harvest, and he always appeared in the barley field of the village." Nyima Tashi, the dean of the Academy of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and Gama Ouzhu, a villager in Mengkarong Village, Zhaqi Township, Zanang County, Tibet, who died unexpectedly, said that he can’t forget that this man often writes and paints in his notebook, and he is in the field Squatting is just a few hours of "Dr. Barley".
The picture shows in 2014 Nima Tashi (the speaker of the podium) promoted the cultivation of "Zangqing 2000" in Burang County, Ngari Prefecture (data map).
Photo courtesy of Tibet Academy of Agricultural Sciences
It is reported that highland barley is the food crop with the largest planting area in Tibet, and the planting area will reach 2,150,600 mu in 2020.
Before Tibet’s peaceful liberation, the average yield of highland barley was only about 100 kilograms per mu. In the 1960s, the average yield per mu was only about 200 kilograms. Nima Tashi, who was born in an ordinary peasant family in Dhanang County in 1966, had walked the streets. The experience of trading earthenware for food.
The picture shows Nima Tashi (second from left) chatting with farmers during research in Ali (data map).
Photo courtesy of Tibet Academy of Agricultural Sciences
With the desire to make the barley a good harvest, Nima Tashi was admitted to the then Northwest Agricultural University (now Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University), and became the first Tibetan agronomy PhD in Tibet. Then he gave up the International Mountain Development Center in Nepal to provide He was invited to return to China to support Tibet’s agricultural development and construction.
The picture shows Nima Tashi (right) chatting with Tibetan farmers (data picture).
Photo courtesy of Tibet Academy of Agricultural Sciences
For more than 30 years, Nima Tashi has presided over the cultivation of "Zangqing 2000" and other new varieties of double-height barley varieties suitable for different ecological regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, initiated and led the completion of the genome sequencing of the barley, and mapped the world's first complete barley genome The detailed map and the overall results are at the international advanced level. Among them, the new highland barley selection and breeding technology in the plateau is at the international leading level.
The picture shows the group photo of Nima Tashi (left) and Yu Dailin during their inspection in Xigaze (data map).
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Yu Dailin, a colleague of Nima Tashi and a university classmate, said that compared with the achievements in basic theoretical research on barley, Nima Tashi, who has become an internationally renowned expert on highland barley, is more concerned about whether farmers can increase their production and income through highland barley.
"He often said,'The paper is written on the ground, and the results remain in the farmers' homes.' In fact, he did the same."
The picture shows Nima Tashi (first from the right) engaged in innovative work in barley breeding (data map).
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"Love to go to the countryside." It was the unanimous evaluation of Nima Tashi's colleagues.
It is estimated that he spends more than 100 days in the countryside every year, traveling as far as Ali and near Lhasa, covering more than 20,000 kilometers.
Even on a business trip to the mainland, Nyima Tashi would go to nearby fields during his free time while waiting for the flight at the airport to check the growth of crops and soil moisture... Where there is a problem, he would help the farmers on the spot.
The picture shows Nima Tashi (left) investigating the barley plantation (data map).
Photo courtesy of Tibet Academy of Agricultural Sciences
"When talking to farmers about the amount of pesticides, Nima Tashi will not say how many milliliters are these terms, but just use a few bottle caps." Yu Dailin said, when explaining the soil moisture, Nima Tashi would poke his hands into the soil , And then pull it out, when it comes to which knuckle soil is dry, it needs to be watered, and the farmers will understand it as soon as they hear it.
"After going back and forth, farmers in many places (cities) knew this dean Nima who always smiled and has a mustache."
The picture shows Nima Tashi observing the growth of highland barley in the experimental field (data map).
Photo courtesy of Tibet Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Ciren Gongjue, a farmer from Bailang County, Xigaze City, said that everyone respects Nima Tashi because of his high position and his skills as a "Doctor of Barley", but because he has no sense of distance between him and the farmers. Everyone sat on the ground and ate tsampa together and cared about the crops, cattle and sheep in the village. We asked him for help if we had any problems. There was no need to call or make an appointment. There was no'threshold' in his office."
The picture shows Nima Tashi (right) participating in the live broadcast of poverty alleviation in Tibet (video screenshot).
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On August 30, 2020, Nima Tashi once again led a team to the countryside in Ali to participate in the new round of census of crop germplasm resources in Tibet.
He died in a car accident on the way to Ali Ritu County on September 5. In a photo sent to a colleague before the accident was a barley field along the way.
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The picture shows Nima Tashi (third from right) guiding farmers to plant on the way to the countryside (data picture).
Photo courtesy of Tibet Academy of Agricultural Sciences