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China News Service, Fuzhou, July 12th: Lin Zhanxi, the inventor of Juncao technology: "As long as we are needed, we have our value"
China News Service reporter Long Min
"There are no tall trees and no fragrance of flowers, but Juncao can transform into mountains." In the face of college students participating in summer practice, Lin Zhanxi, the inventor of Juncao technology and a national outstanding Communist Party member, told the scene on July 10 that he chose to apply for the agricultural school in his youth. He recalled the experience of inventing Juncao, being assigned to help foreign countries, and helping the poor with Juncao, "Minning Love", and encouraged college students to "go out of the campus, go to the countryside, and write the youth answer sheet of the new era on the vast land of the motherland".
Lin Zhanxi, born in 1943, has been engaged in the research, promotion and teaching of Juncao technology for a long time. He is currently the chief scientist of the National Juncao Engineering Technology Research Center and an academician of the United Nations International Academy of Ecological Safety. He is the prototype of Professor Ling Yinong in the TV series "Shan Hai Qing".
Bacteria farmers in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa have a good harvest.
Photo by National Juncao Engineering Technology Research Center
Lin Zhanxi, who is nearly eighty years old, is still running around for the Juncao cause.
Earlier this month, he returned to the countryside in Yongding District, Longyan, an old district in western Fujian, and followed the rugged mountain road to investigate the ecological restoration of abandoned mines.
Soon, Lin Zhanxi will go to Minning Town, Ningxia for the sixth time this year, to promote the construction of a local Juncao breeding center.
"As long as you are still alive, you must continue to fight; you must write your thesis on the ground and into the farmers' pockets." He said that Juncao technology is ushering in a breakthrough from a point of breakthrough to a comprehensive development to a qualitative leap. The best time to develop.
"I'm a farmer's child, I should do farming"
Lin Zhanxi is from Liancheng County, Longyan City. The mountains are high and the road is far away. His family is difficult. He was often hungry when he was a child. Children, you should do agriculture." Learning agriculture took root in Lin Zhanxi's heart; later, when he applied for college, Lin Zhanxi's volunteer form filled in all agricultural colleges.
In the 1970s, edible fungi became an important industry for farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich, but because of the need to cut wood excessively as a culture medium, it formed a prominent contradiction with the ecological balance.
In 1983, Lin Zhanxi accompanied the Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Poverty Alleviation Mission to Changting County, Longyan. The scene here shocked him. The "hanging river" was one or two meters above the cultivated land on both sides. The surrounding hills were barren and the cultivated land was desertified. "It's really a mountain light, turbid water, thin fields, poor people, and an extremely bad ecological environment."
After returning from Changting, 40-year-old Lin Zhanxi resigned from his administrative position and began to concentrate on researching the technology of "substituting grass for wood" to cultivate edible fungi.
In the following three years, Lin Zhanxi ran back and forth: there was no experimental site, and Lin Zhanxi borrowed 50,000 yuan from the school engineering team to build a laboratory; without a bacterial inoculation needle, he dismantled the bicycle at home and polished the steel wire instead; The pulverizer, borrowed the feed pulverizer of the school farm, smashed the wild grass scorpion to make the culture medium...
Finally, in the autumn of 1986, the first shiitake mushroom, cultivated with the sagebrush, broke ground and bloomed in the test bottle.
Juncao technology was born.
At present, Lin Zhanxi's team has screened out 54 edible and medicinal fungi that can be cultivated with 49 types of Juncao. The technology of Juncao has expanded from the initial "replacement of wood with grass" mushroom cultivation to Juncao ecological management, Juncao feed, fungus fertilizer, Emerging ecological industries such as Juncao materials and Juncao biomass energy development.
Minning cooperates to interpret "Mountain and Sea Love"
In 1996, Fujian and Ningxia launched their counterpart poverty alleviation cooperation.
In April 1997, Juncao technology was listed as a counterpart poverty alleviation cooperation project in Minning.
Lin Zhanxi and his team traveled thousands of miles with 6 boxes of Juncao seeds to Pengyang County, Guyuan City.
He selected 27 households in Xiaochagou Village, an ancient town, transformed abandoned cave dwellings into simple mushroom sheds, and cultivated mushrooms with corn stalks and wheat stalks.
Within half a year, the farmers participating in the experiment have an income of 2,000 yuan per household.
The farmers with the highest income can grow oyster mushrooms in a mushroom shed of less than 50 square meters, and the net income is 10,000 yuan, which is higher than the income of planting 27 mu of wheat.
By 2007, 17,500 households in Ningxia had participated in the production of Juncao, and 17,500 mushroom sheds had been built, creating an output value of nearly 100 million yuan. The average annual income of mushroom farmers increased by more than 5,000 yuan.
A local old man made up a jingle, which has been passed down to this day - "Juncao Juncao, Minning grass, happiness grass, socialism is better, or the Communist Party is better."
Since 1986, Juncao technology has been extended to 506 counties in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country, helping tens of millions of farmers get rid of poverty and become rich.
Moreover, the cultivation of shiitake mushrooms by "replacing wood with grass" can save 20 million cubic meters of trees every year across the country.
Since 2013, Lin Zhanxi and his team have been stationed in the Ulan Buhe desert of Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. For 9 years, they have been exploring the use of Juncao to prevent wind and sand.
In the first year, the Juncao they planted finally subdued the quicksand after "resurrection" 7 times.
Lin Zhanxi also found that "Oasis No. 1" Juncao can withstand low temperatures of more than minus 20 degrees Celsius, and can safely spend the winter on the Yellow River beach.
"In my lifetime, I hope to successfully develop the Juncao industry in ecologically fragile areas, such as the Yellow River Basin, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and some arid and semi-arid regions, and build a thousand-mile Juncao ecological safety barrier." Lin Zhanxi said that the Yellow River should be made "mother river". Become a "Happiness River" that benefits the people.
"Happiness Grass" for Poverty Alleviation and Foreign Aid
In the South Pacific island country of Papua New Guinea, Juncao is called "Lin" grass by the local people because of Lin Zhanxi's surname "Lin".
In 2001, the Juncao technical assistance project was launched in Papua New Guinea, which opened the prelude to the international cooperation in Juncao technology.
Over the past 20 years, Lin Zhanxi has adhered to the firm belief of "developing the Juncao industry and benefiting all mankind".
Recalling the time when the Chinese Juncao promotion team first arrived in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Lin Zhanxi sighed, "There are many difficulties, and even life-threatening."
But they did not retreat. They made simple and simple measures according to local conditions, so that Juncao took root and quickly cultivated various edible fungi using the local wild Juncao.
When the success was announced, a local celebration was held with more than 5,000 people, the five-star red flag was raised, and the Chinese national anthem was played.
The fungus farmers who had a good harvest shouted "China, Juncao"!
From 2001 to 2019, Lin Zhanxi went to Papua New Guinea 22 times to organize and implement Juncao technology projects.
Today, the technology of Juncao and upland rice has been extended to more than 8,600 farmers in 16 regions in 8 provinces of Papua New Guinea, benefiting more than 30,000 people. It has also set a world record of 853 tons per hectare of giant Juncao.
"Where there are five red stars, it is the country and region where our Juncao technology has been extended." In Lin Zhanxi's office, there is a globe with many red five stars marked on it.
So far, Juncao technology has spread to 106 countries around the world, and it has also been listed as an important project of the "China-United Nations Peace and Development Fund".
In the face of the adverse impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, last year, the number of overseas Juncao technology demonstration bases increased from 13 to 17.
Lin Zhanxi said that the tenacious Juncao is not afraid of any difficulties. "As long as it is needed where it is needed, it has our value. This is a 'Chinese grass', with the common destiny of mankind in mind." (End)