date:Dec 29, 2012
clinic still opens every day - far exceeding the original plan of being open once a week, he said.
When a farmer brings a sample of a sick crop to the plant clinic, a trained plant doctor diagnoses the problem and recommends an affordable, locally available treatment.
Meanwhile, data about the farmer's visit - location, type of crop disease and insect pest, and treatment recommendation - is entered into an electronic database which is shared with the other plant clinics in the country.
Zhang