On February 24, the traditional Lantern Festival, Lin Zhanxi, the "father of the world's Juncao technology", ushered in a different kind of "reunion". In Nadi, Fiji, he spent the festive season with his colleagues at the China-Pacific Island Countries Juncao Technology Demonstration Center, "setting off fireworks, eating glutinous rice balls, and talking about homely things."
In March 2023, the China-Pacific Island Countries Juncao Technology Demonstration Center was opened in Fiji, driving the development of the Juncao industry in the surrounding South Pacific island countries.
On the afternoon of February 21, local time, Lin Zhanxi (third from right) guided the development of the local Juncao industry in Fiji.
Seeing that the Juncao industry has benefited the local people, and seeing the health of the foreign aid staff is also a kind of reunion. As the chief scientist of China's National Juncao Engineering Technology Research Center, academician of the United Nations International Academy of Ecological Security, and researcher of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Lin Zhanxi told China News Service reporters in **.
Lin Zhanxi, who is over eighty years old, is still busy in the New Year of the Dragon, "Juncao industry has finally ushered in spring, and we must grasp it." Lin Zhanxi said, "Although the Juncao industry has made some achievements, there are still many poor people around the world, and the pressure of ecological environment deterioration is still huge. ”
Juncao poverty alleviation is the original intention of Lin Zhanxi, who has been engaged in the research, promotion and teaching of Juncao technology for a long time. In previous interviews, he recalled many times that in 1983, he went to Changting County, Longyan County, Fujian Province with the Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Poverty Alleviation Delegation, and the scene there shocked him - the "Hanging River" is one or two meters higher than the cultivated land on both sides, and the surrounding hills are barren and the cultivated land is desertified. After returning from Changting, 40-year-old Lin Zhanxi resigned from his administrative position and began to concentrate on the technology of cultivating edible fungi with grass instead of wood.
It is this original intention that Lin Zhanxi does not take mountains and seas as far, from Fujian to Ningxia, from China to all over the world. As of 2007, Ningxia 1750,000 households participated in Juncao production and built mushroom sheds1750,000, creating an output value of nearly 100 million yuan (RMB, the same below), and the average annual income of mushroom farmers increased by more than 5,000 yuan. Today, Juncao technology has spread to 106 countries around the world, and has been listed as an important project of "China-United Nations Peace and Development".
In 2023, Juncao has made many new achievements. Lin Zhanxi said that after the smooth transition of epidemic prevention and control, Juncao's "going out" ushered in new opportunities. In 2023, the National Juncao Engineering Research Center of China sent 59 experts to 16 countries to promote Juncao technology, and trained more than 2,000 trainees from 35 countries. Just after the Spring Festival, Lin Zhanxi flew to Nadi, Fiji to participate in an international symposium on "Application of Juncao Technology and Its Contribution to Poverty Alleviation, Employment Promotion and Environmental Protection". In Lin Zhanxi's view, poverty eradication is still the biggest global challenge facing the world today, and it is also the common mission of mankind. "There are many things waiting for us to do, and the development of the Juncao industry is like a boat in the same boat. ”
Lin Zhanxi believes that Juncao technology can be applied to 6 major fields and 12 industries, including "grass instead of wood" to cultivate edible fungi, "grass instead of grain" to develop livestock and poultry industry, "grass instead of wood" to produce fiber, fiberboard and pulp, "grass instead of coal" power generation, bio-organic fertilizer production, ecological management, etc., to serve 13 of the 17 goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The use of Juncao technology to develop the Juncao industry has the advantages of thousands of households being able to participate and develop, and the investment is provincial, the effect is fast, the economic benefits are high, the ecological benefits are good, and the adaptability is wide. Lin Zhanxi sticks to the front line of the Juncao industry, "hoping that Juncao can open up a new path for poverty alleviation and sustainable agricultural development in developing countries."