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Greenhouse-grown vegetables empower Bainang farmers
By:China Daily
update:August 28,2017

There are 5,428 greenhouses covering 780 hectares used for vegetable farming, producing 25,000 metric tons or 100 million yuan worth of vegetables a year.

Huang Xiaoguang, deputy Party chief of Bainang, said improving vegetables' adaptability to the high altitude of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a big challenge that the experts and technicians from Shandong are tackling head on.

Huang is also an official from Shandong. He came to Bainang to fulfill his responsibility to help the Tibetan people to improve their lives by using resources from Shandong.

Shandong's farming experts have been developing vegetable varieties with better adaptability for the past 19 years and have made great progress, he said.

Despite Bainang's high altitude, Huang said it is suitable for greenhouse vegetable farming because of the plentiful sunshine and fertile and pollution-free soil.

"In nearly two decades, vegetable farming has become a promising industry in Bainang."

Shandong's experts have also endeavored to make their technologies and expertise better understood by more local farmers.

They have established a demonstration park for vegetable farming in Bainang, using modern technologies and equipment. Zhang is the chief technology officer of the park.

"Here we offer training courses on greenhouse vegetable farming for local people in Bainang," Zhang said.

Feng Jikang, deputy mayor of Xigaze, and who is also from Shandong, said Bainang county should foster its own brands of organic vegetables, relying on the support of Shandong's experts and the concerted efforts of local farmers.

Bainang county has begun to implement a new development plan for the vegetable industry, focusing on promoting a "companies plus households" operation model, Feng said.

"The integration of farmers as individual growers with companies that have better technologies and sales channels is expected to increase the industry's scale and expand marketing channels."

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