China's aid to Burundi’s “Poverty Alleviation Rice”

Recently, good news came from Burundi, a central African country: China’s aid to Burundi’s third-stage senior agricultural expert group’s demonstration field harvest, with a maximum yield of 924 kg per mu and an average yield of 725.3 kg per mu, has set a record for high rice production in Africa. Under the framework of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum, China and Africa are carrying out a series of pragmatic and efficient agricultural cooperation. Chinese agricultural experts and African farmers have changed the face of local agricultural production. Local farmers said that China’s “Poverty Alleviation Rice” gave them new hopes of getting rich.

The Great Lakes region is a traditional agricultural region in eastern Africa. It is located on a plateau with good climatic conditions and is the most densely populated region in Africa. However, the food issue has always been a difficult obstacle to local development. Recently, China’s aid to Burundi’s third-stage senior agricultural expert group has achieved a bumper harvest in the rice demonstration field in the Inbo plains in Bubanza province, Burundi. Among the four rice varieties introduced for trial planting, the “Y Liangyou 900” rice yield is as high as 924 kg per mu, and the average yield per mu is 725.3 kg, which is more than three times the local average. It not only creates a high-yield record in Burundi. It also set a record for high yields of rice in Africa.

The average yield per mu of paddy fields in Burundi is 200-250 kg. When the demonstration field project was first started, the farmers were hesitant to try Chinese rice. In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the trial farmers, Chinese agricultural experts have promised to increase the rice yield to more than 350 kg, provided that the technical requirements of the experts are fully met. In order to dispel the concerns of the trial farmers, the Chinese agricultural expert group almost every day in the rice fields, found problems to help farmers correct in time, the seasons, the Chinese experts' skin is tanned.

The harvest season has arrived. The first demonstration farm has given local farmers a taste of sweetness: the output of the demonstration field is 9.5 tons per hectare (about 633 kg per mu), while the rice grown by local farmers next to the demonstration field is only 3 per hectare. Ton. Burundi's agricultural technology expert Evra Ndajkeza admits that planting rice in the local area can be said to be unprofitable because of low yields and low incomes. However, the output of the demonstration field shows that the agricultural potential of Burundi is “very large”. “Our farmers here say that Chinese rice is fast-riding poverty and getting rich rice”. Nda Ikeza calculated an economic account for the reporter. A farmer with 0.5 hectares of paddy fields can harvest about 14 tons of rice per year for three seasons. The annual income is nearly 7 million Burundi francs (about 29,000). Yuan yuan), and in the local area of ​​a brick house with an area of ​​more than 80 square meters, only 6 million Burundian francs are needed. "The people have a lot of hope."

The rice produced in China's demonstration fields not only achieved breakthroughs in production, but also was superior in quality to local varieties. Yang Huade, head of the third-stage senior agricultural expert group of China's aid to Burundi, told rice reporters that the rice produced by these rice can completely replace imported rice and can be exported to neighboring countries such as Congo (Kinshasa) and Rwanda.

The local trial farmer Setoma relies on a one-hectare demonstration field and receives 7.5 million Burundian francs after one season. Seeing Setoma in the pockets, local farmers are eager to sign up, want to taste the sweetness of high-yielding rice, and also compiled a jingle: "Build a new house in a year, two years to marry the bride."
Farmers earn more, bought motorcycles and built new houses.

“The peasants who came to demonstrate the field are full of people. I want to learn more about the varieties and planting techniques of rice in China,” Nida Ikeza said. Burundi has excellent natural conditions and is ideal for growing rice. However, although the primary industry accounts for more than 40% of the country's GDP, the agricultural and livestock industry accounts for more than 90% of the population, but the food gap is still above 30%. According to the United Nations Food Programme, Burundi is one of the countries with the highest rate of hunger and malnutrition in the world. Last year, the country also banned the export of food to foreign countries in response to the drought caused by climate change.

Severin Bagolli Kunda, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture of Burundi, said, “The rice production in China’s demonstration fields is more than three times that of the local area. This will be the history of agricultural development in Burundi and will open a new chapter in rice development in China. We rely on Chinese hybrid rice and Chinese technology to develop confidence in the rice industry.” He said, “If rice production in the country can reach this level, then Burundian farmers will be rich without food, and their livelihood will fall. ."

The Burundi InBev Social Development Association, which manages the production and operation of 100,000 mu of paddy fields, also expressed its desire to expand the cultivation of hybrid rice in China. Other rice growing provinces in Burundi want to invite Chinese experts to guide. Yang Huade said that the demonstration field has driven the enthusiasm of the villagers, and they have asked to participate in the next trial. In addition to “giving people a fish”, Chinese experts pay more attention to “granting people to fish”. In the future, they will promote Chinese hybrid rice in various regions, and let Burundi technicians participate in the whole process, focusing on cultivating a group of local technical backbones. The complementary advantages of cloth jointly promote the long-term promotion of hybrid rice in the local area. It is understood that China's high-quality hybrid rice varieties will help Burundi to alleviate the food shortage problem in the future. China will also build an agricultural technology demonstration center in Burundi to conduct demonstration cooperation with Burundi in the fields of animal husbandry, fishery and agricultural product processing.

Burundi is only a microcosm of the rapid development of China-Africa agricultural cooperation. At present, from East Africa to West Africa, from the Sahara to Victoria Falls, China-Africa agricultural cooperation is benefiting more and more Africans. Practice has proved that China's agricultural development experience and advanced agricultural technology can effectively help Africa increase crop yields.

Huang Yuping, director of the China Benin Agricultural Demonstration Center, said that the center has promoted high-yield cultivation techniques for corn in 10 cities in Benin, training 1,500 farmers, and driving the surrounding farmers to increase the corn yield from 1 to 5 tons per hectare. The planting area is 5,000 hectares. The farmers have earned more, bought motorcycles and built new houses.

Last year, under the guidance of Chinese experts, the rice yield of the villagers of the Georg family in the village of Gia in the northern province of Senegal increased from 150 kg to 620 kg. With money, Kimo bought a new motorcycle and thanked the Chinese experts for sending lamb legs during the Eid al-Adha. He took the hand of a Chinese expert and said, "Thanks to you, I have a good life." Zheng Junjie, head of the China-Senegal Agricultural Technology Cooperation Group, told reporters that there are many stories in Senegal. In the province of Puerto Rico, more than 6,000 farmers benefit from Chinese technology, and the output of agricultural products has increased by an average of 50%. Many farmers have called Chinese experts For the "leader of technology to get rich."

China has built more than 20 agricultural technology demonstration centers for Africa

In December 2016, the African Economic Conference held by the African Development Bank focused on the transformation of African agriculture. At the seminar “What Africa Can Learn from the Chinese Agricultural Revolution”, Professor Azma of the University of Nigeria stated that the Green Revolution began in East Asia in the 1960s, significantly increasing the output of agricultural products per unit of land, especially It is the output of wheat and rice. Between 1970 and 1995, East Asia achieved a doubling of grain production on the basis of a 4% increase in arable land, mainly due to increased mechanization levels, fertilizer use rates and irrigation efficiency. Participants generally agreed that African countries can learn from East Asia, especially China's agricultural development experience, and increase agricultural production.
Yang Huade believes that the current situation of rural agriculture in Africa is similar to that of China decades ago. "We are both creators and witnesses of China's agricultural miracle. China's experience has implications for Africa and Africa's agricultural potential is huge."

When interviewed by African countries, the reporter found that many people lamented the fertility of African land, but due to various factors such as backward technology, poor infrastructure, lack of agricultural materials and low level of planting technology, agricultural development in Africa was constrained and led to poverty. Even the famine.

Under the framework of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum, China and Africa are carrying out a series of pragmatic and efficient agricultural cooperation. On the one hand, China has assisted African countries in building more than 20 agricultural technology demonstration centers to help improve the level of agricultural technology and promote the development of local rural agricultural economy. On the other hand, China has helped African countries to train agricultural technology and management talents on a large scale. One Chinese and one Chinese agricultural expert guided and trained local farmers in various places on the African continent in a sincere and pragmatic manner to help them embark on the road to prosperity.

Chen Hualin, head of the expert group of China's aiding Tanzania Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center, told this reporter that the potential for improving agricultural yields in Africa is huge. In Tanzania, for example, the average yield of rice in the country is 2 tons per hectare. If China's advanced planting technology is adopted, at least the yield of rice can be increased to more than 6 tons per hectare. If water facilities improve, the country's rice area can be increased to 1 million hectares, with an annual output of 6 million tons. According to this figure, the country will become a rice exporter and a granary in Africa. (Source: Internet)

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