Q: Are there any moments from the whole process that you still recall?

Lin: In a village called Finitugu (Eastern Highlands), different tribes often fought with each other.

After we taught them to grow mushrooms with Juncao and also to grow rice in arid land, it solved their grain shortage problem and their incomes increased.

After that, they signed peace agreements to stop fighting among themselves and passed on 1.2 metric tons of rice seeds to our team, asking us to donate these to poorer farmers.

They also invited the governor of the Eastern Highlands to attend a ceremony and inscribed the name of our project and the names of the project managers on a stele.

Our experience in the past decades is that Juncao is not only good for pulling local residents out of poverty, but also improves the ecological environment.

We will let more people in developing countries benefit from the use of this technique.