During the second China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation Forum held in mid-November, Guinea-Bissau's Minister of Agriculture Lamba expressed his sincere gratitude to China for its long-term selfless assistance to various fields, especially agriculture. Lamba said that China not only provides agricultural machinery and other material subsidies, but also sends agricultural experts to provide technical training for Guinea-Bissau for a long time, which effectively alleviates the shortage of local agricultural talents. At present, the China Agricultural Technology Group is training agricultural technicians in Buffetta province. Under the guidance of Chinese experts, the local rice production has increased significantly, which will contribute significantly to alleviating food security problems.
Guinea-Bissau is located in West Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, with the Reba River meandering through it, and rice areas along the river, where the inhabitants have cultivated for generations. Agosto, a 47-year-old villager from the village of Aparagov, planted the land according to his old Xi, but after a busy season, less than 150 kilograms of rice were harvested per acre. After the Chinese agricultural expert group learned about it, they provided him with rice seeds and fertilizer free of charge, and the Chinese experts taught him how to sow seeds and raise seedlings, manage water and fertilize, and weed and remove weeds. The hard work has paid off, and today, Argosto's rice yield has reached 550 kilograms per mu. Agosto bought a motorcycle, a smartphone, and new clothes for her four children. He said from the bottom of his heart: "I love the Chinese experts, they have lifted me out of poverty and made my life better and better. ”
Zheng Junjie, head of the 11th agricultural expert group in Guinea-Bissau, told reporters that rice is the country's main food crop. In 1998, China** began to send agricultural technology experts to the country. Over the past 20 years, groups of agricultural experts from Yichang, Hubei Province, have been stationed in Bafata Province on the banks of the Reba River to carry out agricultural cooperation between the two countries. Through the joint efforts of 11 agricultural experts, the agricultural cooperation between the two countries has achieved fruitful results, and has achieved a lot of results in the field of rice planting and improved seed breeding, which has been widely recognized and praised, and has been listed by the United Nations Development Programme as a successful case of China's assistance to non-agricultural countries.
In Guinea-Bissau, the agricultural expert group has successfully established a technical system for the breeding of rice varieties, and has successfully selected and bred a number of new rice varieties such as SB-12, SB-15, CP-27, CP-28, CP-29, etc., among which SB-15 passed the country's national variety approval last year, and this year it was promoted and planted in the Gran Dam Farm, and the performance is very good. "We planted 2,250 acres of new varieties of SB-15 rice. Among them, more than 1,200 acres of rice planted in advance have matured. Enballo, director of the Gran Dam Farm, said that according to the joint theoretical measurement of Chinese experts and farm technicians, the yield per mu can reach 1,100 catties, about 200 catties more than last year.
Relying on technical assistance, at present, the agricultural cooperation between the two sides has formed a variety of cooperation models such as "Chinese experts + local farms + farmers" and "Chinese experts + cooperatives (associations) + farmers". Agricultural dispatch shows that at present, all 1,005 acres of rice in the Gangpo Rice Spreading Association have been harvestedGonglubu Farm has harvested 1,550 acres of rice, and the harvest progress has exceeded 50%;Some of the rice at the Glen Dam Farm has also begun to mature, and a bumper harvest is in sight.
In order to better play the supporting function of "technology + materials", Chinese experts have not only built a rice high-yield demonstration base, carried out rice cultivation technology demonstrations, carefully compiled a series of Chinese-Portuguese bilingual training materials such as "Key Points of Rice Planting Technology", "Rice Direct Seeding Technology" and "Key Points of Lubricating Oil Use Technology", but also adopted multi-leading teaching and other forms to improve the teaching level. The participants responded positively and interacted frequently, and the teaching effect was very significant. Since August last year, the agricultural technology expert group has organized a total of 80 technical trainings on rice, vegetables and agricultural machinery, with 4,500 trainees, and more than 70 trained technical backbones have taken up the post of farm director, deputy director and technician.
According to reports, over the past 20 years, China's agricultural technology team has been stationed in Guinea-Bissau, successively introduced and bred more than 30 rice varieties, carried out more than 20,000 agricultural technology training for farmers and technical backbones, provided free assistance to more than 1,400 tons of high-quality fertilizers and more than 200 sets of agricultural machinery, provided free machinery maintenance and maintenance, and disseminated rice planting suitable for local areas. Agricultural production knowledge and technology, such as agricultural machinery operation and maintenance, have led to an increase in the planting area of Guinea-Bissau rice from 60,000 hectares to 100,000 hectares per season, which has greatly promoted the increase of local rice production and helped local people to firmly hold their jobs in their own hands. (Economic ** reporter in Dakar, Song Bin, Lin Jiaquan).