Chinese Farmer Claims Patent for Transplanting Big Trees

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Chinese Farmer Claims Patent for Transplanting Big Trees

A farmer of Changzhou City in east China's Jiangsu Province, has filed a patent application to the State Intellectual Property Office to patent his own way of transplanting big trees.

A farmer of Changzhou City in east China's Jiangsu Province, has filed a patent application to the State Intellectual Property Office to patent his own way of transplanting big trees.

Dai Suofang the farmer, in his forties, has transplanted big trees in six provinces in China over the past 13 years. More than 30,000 big trees transplanted by Dai have survived, according to Sunday's Beijing Daily.

Dai's method has raised the survival rate of transplanted treesfrom 60 to 95 percent the paper reports, adding that even in scorching summer weather, more than 90 percent of the transplantedtrees survive.

In recent years, Dai has transplanted more than 5,000 trees with diameters over 15 centimeters in Changzhou City alone. Among these trees is a 300-year-old ginkgo tree, which has a diameter of90 centimeters.

Dai has also built a "big tree base" which now has over 10,000 trees with diameters of more than 15 centimeters.

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