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CAAS and WB Seeking Opportunities to Boost Agricultural Development in Africa
On January 13, 2015, CAAS President LI Jiayang met with Makhtar Diop, World Bank Vice President for Africa. Views were exchanged on further strengthening the collaboration to boost agricultural development in African countries.
“CAAS always appreciates the collaboration with the World Bank. Under the framework of the World Bank-China cooperation on agricultural technology transfer, plenty of successful application and demonstration trainings have been implemented in African countries, such as the Technology Transfer and Studying Tour for nearly 50 representatives from different African countries organized by CAAS in Beijing last year. ” LI said.
LI showed the confidence in pushing forward the agricultural development of Africa and added, “With the combination of Chinese traditional farming and modern agricultural technologies, CAAS has developed many advanced technologies and bred new crop varieties which are very adaptable to Africa. I believe that with the support of the World Bank and related government ministries, CAAS will make relentless efforts with its expertise to boost the agricultural development in Africa.”
Diop highly recognized the achievements that China has been providing foreign assistance to African countries.
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Research Update
CAAS and WB Seeking Opportunities to Boost Agricultural Development in Africa
“CAAS always appreciates the collaboration with the World Bank. Under the framework of the World Bank-China cooperation on agricultural technology transfer, plenty of successful application and demonstration trainings have been implemented in African countries, such as the Technology Transfer and Studying Tour for nearly 50 representatives from different African countries organized by CAAS in Beijing last year. ” LI said.
LI showed the confidence in pushing forward the agricultural development of Africa and added, “With the combination of Chinese traditional farming and modern agricultural technologies, CAAS has developed many advanced technologies and bred new crop varieties which are very adaptable to Africa. I believe that with the support of the World Bank and related government ministries, CAAS will make relentless efforts with its expertise to boost the agricultural development in Africa.”
Diop highly recognized the achievements that China has been providing foreign assistance to African countries. Read more >>
International Cooperation Update
CAAS Found a New Soy Source for Crop Salt Tolerance
The salt-affected agriculture land is rapidly increasing and predicted to double by 2050. Many commercial crops are sensitive to soil salinity and this can cause major losses to crop yields. An increase in the salt tolerance of crops will be effective for improving crop productivity and food security in the condition of expanding the area of agricultural land.
It was reported that the salt tolerance in soybean is controlled by a single dominant allele Ncl nearly half century ago. A major QTL related to soybean salt tolerance was mapped and validated on chromosome 3 by different research groups, but no information of positional cloning of this important locus was found. Read more >>
CNRRI Wins National Award for Progress in Science and Technology - “Application of the Key Cultivation Techniques of Super Rice and Its Regionalized Integration for High Yield”
The research and promotion of super rice has greatly contributed to China’s rice yield. Compared with the general rice, super rice possessed drastically different properties, such as higher dry matter production, larger panicles and more grains. However, the traditional cultivation technique can’t realize its yield potential due to incompatible requirement of super rice production. The project “Application of the Key Cultivation Techniques of Super Rice and its Regionalized Integration for High Yield” focused on investigation of the growth and development characteristics, yielding mechanism and appropriate high-yield cultivation methods for super rice varieties, as well as developing key cultivation techniques to provide technical support for super rice production in large scale. Read more >>
Events
Ethiopian Biological Technology Delegation Visited CAAS
Wu Kongming welcomed Ashame’s visit and extended President Li’s greetings to the Ethiopian delegation. He noted, as agricultural country, China is characterized by the coexistence of diversified agricultural production modes, some of which adopted by Chinese smallholders are similar to those of their Ethiopian counterparts. In this regard, China is willing to share with Ethiopian colleagues the technical resources and experience it had accumulated. Read more >>