Category: Industry News

“When the original water wearing rain boots, iron latte waiting for the water, a little afraid to let go, often need overnight waiting.With drip irrigation facilities, water and then no trouble, and only need to go to the ground to open the valve on the line.” Recently, Hu Fengmei, a worker at the Bezidak Farm… Continue reading Comprehensive benefits of water-saving agriculture in Xinjiang significant

Keywords: China, US, Soybean, Import China will commit to buy more U.S. soybeans during President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing this week, a U.S. industry official said, underlining the importance of trade in farm goods even as tensions grow between the world’s top two economies. China is the world’s biggest soybean importer and the U.S. is… Continue reading China to pledge more US soy imports during Trump visit

Keywords: Seed industry, China The middle kingdom is currently the second largest seed market in the world, right after the USA. The annual planting amount of seeds is accounted by 12.5 million tonnes, granting a market value of USD17.2 billion. China has achieved great success in the promotion of reform and innovation in the seed industry.… Continue reading Seed industry in China is prospering, despite facing challenges

Australia’s first National Vegetable Protected Cropping Centre launched November 1 thanks to a multi-million dollar joint initiative between Hort Innovation and Western Sydney University. The Centre will produce the next generation of horticulture experts, and help the nation’s fresh vegetable growers tap into the very best research and the latest practices in protected cropping. Officially… Continue reading New research center to help drive AUS horticulture

Keywords: Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, China The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility’s (APPF) Dr Trevor Garnett is delighted to have been invited as a feasibility evaluation expert to review the Nanjing Agricultural University’s (NAU) plans for a new high-tech Phenotyping Research Centre later this month. While in Nanjing, China, Dr Garnett will also give a talk at… Continue reading China taps into Australian plant phenomics expertise

Keywords: Brazil, China, soybean, import, production Brazil is expected to win a larger share of China’s soybean imports in coming months, hitting U.S. exporters during the peak marketing season for their most valuable farm product as the world grapples with a fifth consecutive bumper crop. China is expected to buy about five million tonnes of soybeans… Continue reading Brazil cuts into U.S. soybean market share in China

On the 2nd from the Guangzhou Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau was informed that the council area in the first ten months of this year added more than 30 varieties of exported vegetable seeds, are the first time in Guangdong Province for export, some for the first time the country’s exports. It is learned that… Continue reading Guangzhou Port added more than 30 varieties of exported vegetable seeds in October

Keywords：China, Rice, Seawater Scientists in China have developed several types of rice. The rice can be grown in seawater, potentially creating enough food for 200 million people. Researchers have been trying to grow the grain in salty water for decades but have only now developed varieties that could be commercially viable. The rice was grown… Continue reading Chinese scientists develop rice that can grow in seawater, potentially creating enough food for 200 million people

Keywords: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Groundnut, Aflatoxin Scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, in St. Louis, MO and their collaborators at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Louisiana State University have made a significant research breakthrough by suppressing the… Continue reading Vitamin E genes identified in maize may help biofortify crops

Reporter learned from the Sichuan Provincial Department of Agriculture, Sichuan Province, the province’s silage corn acreage has exceeded one million mu, is expected to reach 350 million by 2020. It is understood that Sichuan as a national animal husbandry province, pig size in the country ranked first, but cattle and sheep and milk products are… Continue reading Sichuan silage corn planting area breakthrough million mu