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    HARVESTING A BETTER FUTURE

    Sep 10, 2020 4 minutes
     By Li Xiaoyang

    Till two years ago, Tenzin was a struggling farmer in Lungsang, a village in the city of Xigaze in Tibet Autonomous Region, southwest China. Lying at an average altitude of 4,000 meters, with long sunshine hours and fertile soil, the area is one of the region’s major producers of highland barley. However, the crop had never brought the 75-year-old farmer any sizeable profit in his decades of farming.

    His family used it mostly to make , the traditional Tibetan staple food of roasted barley flour, and sold the rest. Selling was even harder than farming. Tenzin had to rent a truck to take the barley to nearby towns to sell it but would get only a little cash and

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