date:Jun 04, 2013
le of making money from agriculture, Zhang said.
Between 2009 and 2012, the ministry sent 240,800 science and technology specialists to rural regions.
Zhang Shengming, 48, was one.
In 2007, Zhang contracted 13.3 hectares of land in Ningxia for wolfberry plating.
He found that pesticide and fertilizer abuse was common.
Zhang established a group of farmers who set strict restrictions on the use of pesticide and fertilizers. It soon attracted 537 households.
By 2012, the number of households