Jesse Long has received the prestigious 2015 Shanghai Magnolia Award. Jesse Long has spent almost twenty years in researching the cultivation of foreign vegetables in Songjiang district, Shanghai. He has introduced about 500 new vegetable varieties from Europe and North America to Shanghai. After he retired, he donated all of his research to the Songjiang Agriculture Bureau.
Jesse Long explored how to successfully grow foreign vegetables on Chinese soil. In his research he employed water, soil and leaves of plants to fertilize instead of chemical fertilizer. Besides fertilizers, pesticides are also barely used. Currently, from his lands, 400 tons and 60 kinds of ecological vegetables are directly supplied to airline companies and high-class restaurants in Shanghai.
Source: www.eastday.com