Mushrooms in Ear
china.org.cn / chinagate.cn by Jiao Meng, February 20, 2012 Adjust font size:
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Mang Zhong (Grain in Ear, usually around June 5) is the most exciting day in the year for Tan Guiping, as it is the best time to plant rice seedlings. To provide for her son's college tuition, Tan applied for a 1,000 yuan (US$ 158.9) micro loan in 2007 and turned to cultivating tree mushrooms – a more profitable produce. Now her annual income is over 100,000 yuan (US$15,890). After graduating in Hangzhou, her son plans to return home and join her in planting tree mushrooms. [Photo by Hei Ming, shot in Xixiang County in Shaanxi Province] |
