China’s Luanzhou develops greenhouse planting to increase farmers’ income
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Greenhouse production of fruit and veg crops continuously increases. But it can’t increase unless there is adequate ‘pollination’. Having natural pollination by ‘bees’ doesn’t work well in the controlled space of a Greenhouse. So, pollen is collected from male flower parts, the anthers, mixed in an aqueous solution and sprayed on flowers having female, stigma. In this photo “A farmer pollinates cherry blossoms at a greenhouse in Ciyutuo Town of Luanzhou, north China’s Hebei Province, Jan. 29, 2024.”
