Try to grow 100 mu of colored castor on the garbage heap of "King of Castor" in Hong Kong City.

Ordinary castor has planted colorful patterns in the hands of farmers in Dashan. He Shaoyu of Donghezhuang Village, Funing Town, Funing County, Qinhuangdao City, who is praised as the "King of Castor" by the local people, has grown colored castor seeds in his own crop yard after more than 10 years of careful cultivation. Recently, the "King of Castor", who is bent on promoting colored castor, has another whim and is ready to demonstrate and plant on the municipal solid waste landfill in his hometown, build a 100-mu colored castor garden on the garbage dump, and promote it to the whole country. Let colorful castor flowers bloom all over the municipal solid waste landfills in various cities.

■ "King of Castor" popularizes New Technology

He Shaoyu, a farmer in Donghezhuang Village, began to plant castor beans in 1990. after more than ten years of repeated hybridization experiments, he Shaoyu finally successfully cultivated colored castor beans with eight colors and nearly ten varieties in the depths of the mountains. Castor fruit like flowers has become a miracle in the mountains, and Lao he is also known by the villagers as the "King of Castor" because of his obsession with the cultivation of castor seeds.

How to promote the new technology of planting colored castor has become the worry of Lao he. A few years ago, Lao he promoted the planting of colored castor as a part of students' work-study program in nearby schools, with good results. In 2004, he began to promote this technology to schools in remote mountain areas of Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other provinces.

Grow castor on ■ garbage heap

According to he Shaoyu, castor has high economic value, stems can suppress building materials, seeds can extract oil, cake can be used as fertilizer, leaves can raise silkworms, and the benefits are considerable, while the colorful fruit flowers of castor not only become flower arrangement materials in the flower market, large-scale planting can also add a beautiful new landscape for urban greening.

In March this year, he Shaoyu came to Qinhuangdao City Garden Bureau and Environmental Protection Bureau to promote the planting of colored castor in the urban area. Unexpectedly, the staff of the Urban Administration Bureau responded on the spot. It is hoped that Lao he can demonstrate and plant colored castor at the same time in Zhangqiaozhuang domestic waste Landfill site and Shanhaiguan Landfill site in Haigang District. If successful, it can also be promoted in landfills in various cities across the country. The old man immediately organized the villagers of the same village to come to the two garbage dumps to level the land and dig holes to sow seeds.

It is not easy to grow castor on the garbage heap. The Zhangqiaozhuang Municipal solid waste Landfill site, located in the northeast of the urban area of Qinhuangdao City, covers an area of more than 300 mu. Workers have to deal with more than 700 tons of domestic waste produced by the entire seaport area every day. All kinds of engineering vehicles take soil nearby to cover and bury all kinds of garbage. When the wind is strong, plastic bags are flying all over the landfill, while sanitation workers dispose of the landfill and often pick up plastic bags around the landfill. The colorful castor demonstration garden of the "King of Castor" is to be built on a large garbage heap that has been buried and closed by sand. Lao he and the villagers endure the huge smell emitted by all kinds of garbage every day, and often clean up the plastic bags flying all over the field. In more than a month, "King Castor" invested more than 30,000 yuan and planted 100 mu and 30 mu of colored castor demonstration gardens in the seaport area and Shanhaiguan municipal solid waste landfill respectively. In addition, Lao he also came up with a measure to cover the protective net on the garbage heap, hoping to completely solve the pollution of white garbage to the surrounding environment.

■ makes colorful castor plants bloom all over the country

Today, under the meticulous care of the "King of Castor" and his workers, the 100 mu castor garden on the Zhangqiaozhuang municipal solid waste landfill in the harbor area has begun to take shape, and colorful castor seedlings have been broken out.

The "King of Castor" said happily that in a few months, there will be no more plastic bags here, and a hundred mu of colored castor garden will form a beautiful and colorful screen to cover up the huge garbage heap. At that time, the port city will promote to the whole country the environmental protection planting experience of planting colored castor in the garbage dump, so that the colorful castor will open all over the country.