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Nima Tashi selects and produces improved varieties to lift farmers and herders out of poverty and become rich: the plateau leaves the fragrance of barley (Pioneer of the Times)
This fall, the barley on both sides of the Yarlung Zangbo River ushered in a bountiful harvest, but Nima Tashi, who was growing high-yielding barley, never saw it again.
Nima Tashi, former Undersecretary and Dean of the Tibet Academy of Agricultural and Livestock Sciences (hereinafter “Tibet Academy of Agricultural Sciences”), is known as the “Highland Barley Doctor”. As Chief Scientist of the Great Tibetan Upland Barley Science and Technology Project and Tibetan Crop Improvement, Nima Tashi has led the team to select more than 20 new highland barley varieties (lines). Among them, the variety “Zangqing 2000” has an average yield of 350 kg per mu. Tibet’s total annual cereal production exceeded one million tons and made a significant contribution, benefiting millions of farmers and herders on the snowy plateau.
On September 5 of this year, Nima Tashi was in a car accident while on a business trip in Ali, Tibet, and died after the rescue. He was 55 years old.
“May everyone in the village have enough food and not worry about food anymore”
Nima Tashi’s hometown is Zayu Village, Zhatang Town, Zhanang City, Shannan City, Tibet, where the land is barren, dry, and rainless. “The barley planted in the village falls short and you have to kneel on the ground when it is harvested.” Sanjelob, Nima Tashi’s brother, recalls: “The barley varieties are not good and the grains are not ripe. They cannot be eaten as food. They can be used to feed livestock.”
At that time, Nima Tashi’s family could only rely on the pottery-making craft to exchange pottery for food in Zedang and Qiongjie. It often takes eight or nine days to get out, and when it is hard to sell, it takes half a month to retrieve three or four bags of barley.
“When I was a child, I told my mother that I hoped my father and brother didn’t have to trade crockery for highland barley seeds. I want highland barley to grow well and produce high yields.” Nima Tashi once recalled that difficult moment. The desire to “let the villagers eat and not worry about food anymore” took root in his heart.
In 1982, Nima Tashi was admitted to the Northwest Agricultural University Department of Agriculture with his childhood dream, and Zayu Village was the first college student to leave. Subsequently, he was admitted to the Chinese Academy of Sciences for postgraduate master’s degrees and doctoral studies, becoming the first doctorate in agronomy in the history of Tibet.
In 1992, he had the opportunity to go to the University of Saskchunen in Canada for further studies with excellent results. Nima Tashi once said, “When my work unit wrote to me in hopes of being able to study and return to China, I knew that people from my hometown were calling me, and a strong sense of responsibility suddenly arose in my heart. I should go home. ” No matter where he is, always Nostalgic for the hot land of the plateau, after completing his studies, he left the well-paid job of foreign scientific research institutions and resolutely returned to China to devote himself to plateau agriculture and research of highland barley farming.
A seed, rooted in the plateau, began to germinate slowly.
“Being a popular ‘oil expert’ with farmers is more to be proud of”
In late autumn, highland barley in Mengkarong village in Dhanang county has just been harvested, and farmers are driving tractors to sow the land in depth.
“When the seedlings came out, Dean Nima Tashi was here; on August 25, he came too; he said he would come when harvest time came.” The village party secretary, Gama Ouzhu, clearly recalled that Dean Nima Tashi was staying in In the village, guidance was provided in various aspects such as the selection of improved seeds, science and technology and field management. “He doesn’t talk much, he runs to the ground and takes care every time he comes.
“The village started planting ‘Zangqing 2000’ in 2013, and now the whole village has planted 800 mu, and the yield per mu this year is about 650 kilograms,” said Gama Ouzhu, from less than 300 kilograms per mu to more. 300 kilograms per mu. With an annual income of 4,000 to 10,000 yuan, the high-yielding barley has changed the lives of the villagers. In 2016, the entire Mengkarong village came out of poverty.
To obtain the new variety of barley “Zangqing 2000”, Nima Tashi and his team have put in almost 20 years of hard work.
You want to go to the demonstration and promotion fields in the main barley producing areas of the highlands; He also wants to go to remote mountain villages with obvious climatic differences; He even goes to the farmlands around the airport to observe and record the growth of the highland barley during the intervals between meetings and capture planes.
“When I first tried planting, Dean Nima Tashi craved the darkness every day and worked with farmers in the fields, often without drinking water for several hours.” In the impression of Puqiong, director of Jinga village, Bailang county, Nima Tashi is a “soil expert” who can interact with farmers.
Yu Dailin, a researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences at the Tibet Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told reporters that Nima Tashi used to say that he should be good at listening to farmers and speaking words that farmers can understand. “For example, if 50 milliliters of pesticide are applied to one acre of land, the farmer may have no idea. You tell him to apply ‘two bottles of pesticide’ and he will understand.”
“The contribution of agricultural science and technology workers is not how many articles are published in international academic journals, but how many results farmers and herders can use, and how many farmers and herders can help them get rid of poverty and get rich.” . In Nima Tashi’s view, “Being a popular ‘oil expert’ among farmers is more to behold.”
When browsing through Nima Tashi’s WeChat circle of friends, most of them are the feelings of work during the trip: “Heavy snow the whole way. It’s good that the grass crops turn green again, but I hope the Sun shine as soon as possible to avoid snow disaster. Zayu County will wear summer clothes tonight only. It is very cold. “” Medog is very cold: corn is planted in orchards and rice seedlings are planted among corn ; the flat land is cultivated for farmland, the gentle slopes are built into terraces to cultivate rice; the slopes are cultivated in rice fields. “
“Nima Tashi is in the laboratory, in the experimental field or on the way to the field.” Chilie Wangjie, head of the Tibet Science and Technology Agency who has known him for decades, said with emotion: “He is there 24 hours a day. His heart is in the barley.”
So far, the “Zangqing 2000” has accumulated more than 3,308,700 acres of demonstration and promotion, accounting for more than 50% of the highland barley plantation area in Tibet, with an average increase of 25 kg per acre and an additional production value of more than 398 million yuan.
“The paper is written on the ground and the results stay in the farmers’ houses”
On June 13 this year, Nima Tashi was on a live broadcast for poverty alleviation in the barley industry to show netizens Highland Rice, Highland Wine, Highland Vinegar , highland barley noodles, and highland barley energy bars.
“The thesis is written in the field and the results remain in the homes of farmers.” Nima Tashi believes that science and technology should promote the development of agriculture and livestock, the development of agriculture and livestock should promote poverty alleviation, and industrialization should benefit thousands of families. With the development and promotion of new technologies, new processes and new products for highland barley products, so far, the Tibet Academy of Agricultural Sciences has developed more than 100 highland barley products, and the region has more than 50 upland barley processing enterprises above the designated size.
Over the years, Nima Tashi has led a technical team to draw the world’s first and only highland barley gene map and use modern molecular biology, especially genomics, functional genomics, and molecular markers to select highland barley varieties. A number of new ideas for technological innovation in the highland barley industry, such as the improvement of high beta-glucan highland barley varieties, improvement of waxy highland barley, and development of healthy food from highland barley.
But Nima Tashi is not satisfied with the status quo. “He has a wish. He hopes that we will plant holly barley on plateaus above 4,000 meters above sea level for 10 to 15 years,” said Dawa Dunzhu, research associate at the Institute of Agriculture of the Tibet Academy of Agricultural Sciences, to benefit more farmers and pastoralists. , Nima Tashi set the next target as the “Zangqing 3000” with “high stem, lodging resistance and high yield”.
On September 5 of this year, to fill the latest gap in the national germplasm resource survey, Nima Tashi went to Ritu County, Ngari Prefecture, for investigation. During the investigation, he was involved in a car accident. Unfortunately, he died in the line of duty and fell asleep for life. Among the barley of the highlands.
The people of Sri Lanka are gone, leaving the fragrant wheat, Nima Tashi’s lifelong spirit of serving the country with science and technology, along with the countless barley seeds he grew, have spread throughout the mountains and rivers of the snowy plateau. (Reporter Shen Lin and Yuan Quan dare)
