On January 19th, the Memorandum of Agreement Between International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) on Rice Genomics, Germplasm Enhancement and Agronomic Package Development was signed by Prof. Sun Tan, Vice president of CAAS and Dr. Jean Balié, Director General of IRRI.
The APEC Workshop 2021 on Sustainable Rural Development and Human Development Enhanced by Informatization under the COVID-19 Pandemic was held on December 2nd-3rd in Beijing.
On December 15th, the awarding ceremony for the first batch of "China-Africa Joint Centers for Modern Agrotechnology Exchange, Demonstration and Training" was held in Haikou, Hainan Province.
China is striving to beef up its innovation capacity in agricultural science and technology to further safeguard food security of the country, according to a five-year development guideline of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) released on Wednesday.
Recently, the International Workshop on Dryland Agriculture and Food Security has been held online which is hosted by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS).
The 5th International Agricultural Research Conference (hereafter as “the Conference”) was successfully held on Oct 26th in Beijing with the theme of “Global Agricultural Development and International Cooperation in the Post-epidemic Era”.
July 12th-16th, 2021, the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) technical working party for fruit crops (TWF) 52nd session was successfully held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province featured both online and offline elements. This event was supported by UPOV
On July 14th-28th, the International Training Workshop on Advanced Methods in Green Control of Major Plant Pests was held at the Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IPPCAAS), which was sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, China.
China-Kazakhstan Joint Laboratory of Agricultural Sciences (the joint laboratory), which was built by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and Saken Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University (KATU), has been accredited in the accreditation system of the Republic of Kazakhstan for compliance with the requirement of GOST ISO/ICE 17025-2019 "General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories".
On April 19th, Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (BIOMA), China and the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA), Argentina launched the “China-Argentina Biogas Development and Cooperation Center” project in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.