Reflections on launching Technology in Horticulture

作     者：Zong-Ming(Max)Cheng 

作者机构：Founder of Maximum Academic Press1833 Highway 85 SouthFayettevilleGA 30215USA Professor EmeritusDepartment of Plant SciencesUniversity of TennesseeKnoxvilleTN 37996USA 

出 版 物：《Technology in Horticulture》 (园艺技术（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第1卷第1期

页      面：3-4页

学科分类：0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 

主　　题：income culture journal 

摘      要：As a founder of Maximum Academic Press(***),I am very excited to launch Technology in Horticulture as the first academic journal in the series with a focus on applied *** original seeds for this journal were sown over 40 years ago.I was raised in a rural area of Jiangsu Province,on the northern side of Shanghai,*** father was an elementary school teacher,and my mother is a *** is a densely populated area with extremely limited land *** every piece of available land was used to grow staple crops such as wheat,corn,sweet potato,while every tiny piece of land around houses was cultivated for growing vegetables or for putting up a chicken *** to a very limited cash income,I don’t remember eating an apple or an orange,or a juicy peach until I became a teenager.I went through elementary,middle and high school during the cultural revolution when knowledge was little *** a teenager,I started to help the family to earn points in the commune to get more corncobs,*** school in the summer,I spent most of the time collecting weeds to feed a couple of our pigs and *** though I was the best student in middle school in the entire commune,I was not selected for continuing onto high *** was frustrating that selection for high school was not based on meritocracy,but rather based on local political ***,my father managed to use some ad hoc connections so I was finally accepted and completed high school in 1977.