Native researcher brings light of science to rural Tibet

Source: Xinhua | 03-19-2009 14:05

LHASA, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Lighting the alcohol lamp at the laboratory sometimes reminds Cering Zhoigar of the first time, with help from her grandmother, she lit a butter lamp as a little girl and placed it in front of a Buddha statue on the Tibetan New Year Eve.

The flames of the different lamps have both brought hope to the people living in the plateau region of Tibet, said Zhoigar.

Except for the laboratory notebook she always carries, the 32-year-old woman, a researcher with the agricultural science and technology promotion center of the Bomi County in eastern Tibet, looks just like any other Tibetan woman of her age, especially when she wears a mask as protection from the strong sun.

Zhoigar's work is no different from that of other grassroots agricultural scientific researchers in China. She calls herself "alab farmer".

"The difference between the real farmers and us is that their land is much larger than ours in size," said Zhoigar.