NZ expert improves poor farmers’ lot
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Tim Harvey, an agriculture and animal husbandry expert from New Zealand, had a full schedule lined up during his latest visit to northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
It was the 12th trip to Ningxia for the 71-year-old former Massey University professor.
Wearing a black jacket, jeans and sneakers, Harvey climbed yellow dirt slopes, ducked under sheep pens and talked with farmers in Guyuan, one of the poorest areas in China.
“Everywhere Harvey goes, he goes to farms first to see what questions the farmers have and organizes training around these problems,” said Yang Qi, director of an animal husbandry institute in Ningxia, who accompanied Harvey on his visit.
“He has very diverse knowledge of animal husbandry and has a great deal of hands-on experience to help farmers,” Yang said.
At Yanli village in Guyuan, farmer Li Shenglu did not understand why several of his lambs always had runny noses.
Harvey rolled up his sleeves and, with Li, grabbed a lamb to examine it. “It had a bit of a cold, but nothing serious. It had not rained for days, and there is too much dust in the wind, so their noses run,” he said.
Harvey has helped with animal husbandry in China for 30 years, traveling extensively in poor areas of Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Ningxia.
He has received friendship awards from the government and is an honorable citizen of Guizhou for his contributions.
Harvey, who arrived in Yinchuan, Ningxia’s capital, on August 13, had heart surgery last year, but that hasn’t prevented him from keeping a busy schedule.
“Harvey is good at details and numbers. He tells farmers exactly how much they could make through certain ways of raising the cattle. This is something Chinese experts usually lack,” Yang said.
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