Potato and Dairy Cow Projects Set to Launch as Agricultural Dual-Increase Model Is Released
Recently, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences released in Beijing an integrated model for increasing agricultural production and efficiency. Chen Mengshan, Party Secretary of the academy, introduced that in 2015, research on this integrated model will also launch new plans for potato, cotton, dairy cow, sheep and others.
The reporter learned that since 2013, the academy has organized research on integrated production models for increasing the production and efficiency of crops such as rice, corn, wheat, soybean and rapeseed. The research focuses on promoting grain production and efficiency, takes “equal emphasis on increasing production and efficiency, matching good seeds with good methods, integrating agricultural machinery with agronomic practices, and coordinating production with ecology” as its basic requirements, and aims to build a comprehensive technical system for new agricultural development featuring “high yield, high quality, high efficiency, ecology and safety”, organizing cooperative research among relevant units inside and outside the academy and achieving good results.
Through coordinated efforts, the academy integrated a batch of practical technologies and achievements, built integrated production models for increasing the production and efficiency of the above crops, established a batch of fixed experimental and demonstration bases, and formed a batch of research teams. The production increase for these crops all exceeded 10%, with the highest reaching 44.7%, and the highest efficiency increase per mu reached 500 yuan. In major production areas and different ecological zones across the country, a total of 38 relatively fixed experimental and demonstration bases were established, with a cumulative area of nearly 35,000 mu, driving the development of regional modern agriculture.
⟦NL> Yuan Longjiang, Director of the Achievement Transformation Bureau of the academy, introduced that in 2015 research plans for crops such as rice, corn, wheat, soybean and rapeseed will continue to be advanced, and new plans and projects for potato, cotton, dairy cow, sheep and others will be launched. There are 16 participating units within the academy, and outside the academy there are as many as 52 scientific research units alone, plus a large number of local governments, technology extension departments and agricultural cooperative organizations joining in. The number of scientific and technical personnel participating in the joint efforts reached 414, along with more than 1,000 participants from technology extension and production frontline. The plan is to lay out 73 experimental and demonstration bases in major production areas and typical ecological zones, with a total area of 58,000 mu, and to demonstrate 220,000 dairy cows and sheep. The 9 projects are planned to integrate more than 70 technologies, with an average production increase of 10%—15% and an efficiency increase of 10%—20%.