“I believe that adopting Juncao technology in Nauru would be highly beneficial for our country,” mentioned a Nauruan agricultural official. 

BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) — The Pacific island nation Nauru signed up for the Belt and Road Initiative on Monday. 

Since China and Nauru restored diplomatic ties earlier this yr, bilateral win-win cooperation has quickly expanded, yielding useful outcomes for native communities.

Being a Pacific island nation, Nauru is struggling to deal with such urgent challenges as rising sea ranges and land erosion caused by local weather change. Worse nonetheless, the meager assets of recent water for every day life is a persistent concern for native residents.

Due to its unfavorable pure circumstances for cultivation, Nauru closely depends on imports of agricultural merchandise, greens and fruits, leading to excessive costs out there, mentioned Joanna Olsson, director of the Government Information Office of Nauru.

Juncao, a hybrid grass developed by Chinese scientists as a significant multi-functional agricultural useful resource, affords a possible decision to those woes. Translated actually as mushroom grass, Juncao can be utilized for mushroom farming, or as livestock forage and poultry feed, and a inexperienced barrier to forestall desertification.

When working in east China’s Fujian Province greater than 20 years in the past, Xi Jinping launched the Juncao know-how to a visiting provincial governor from Papua New Guinea, one other island nation within the Pacific, marking the start of worldwide cooperation on Juncao know-how.

Having taken root in over 100 nations and areas across the globe, Juncao has been hailed by the locals because the “Chinese grass” or “grass of happiness.”

Last month, Hess-Tekai Foilape, an agricultural extension officer for Nauru’s Department of Environment, Management and Agriculture, grew to become the primary individual from Nauru to attend a Juncao know-how coaching course held by Chinese scientists in Fiji.

“I believe that adopting Juncao technology in Nauru would be highly beneficial for our country. Potential impacts include improved food security, increased resilience to climate change, and enhanced economic opportunities through the development of new industries,” Foilape informed Xinhua.■