China: Garlic fertilizer delivered to Woyun village
Delivery of organic fertilizer has started
in Woyun, the village in Sichuan Province where Amity's reconstruction
and rehabilitation efforts are focused. Farmers grow a lot of garlic in
the region, which needs a special kind of fertilizer. Some 50 kilograms
of fertilizer per mu of land are needed (1 mu is about 667 square meters,
or 1/15 of a hectare). Enough fertilizer for all garlic-growing families
in Woyun Village be delivered by the end of this week. Villagers have been
eagerly awaiting the delivery trucks and helping to unload them.