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Chinese Farmers to get Science and Tech Training
The government in China has earmarked a significant boost in the funding devoted to providing science training for their millions of small farmers. They say this is needed because less than one per cent of their farmers have had any formal training.
...."Song Li, a farmer in Daxing County in suburban Beijing, told the forum that since attending an agricultural skills training programme, his harvest of greenhouse vegetables has more than doubled, and he spends less on chemical fertilisers and pesticides."....more "education works", there