Group Highlights Event Malaysia-China Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Center Established and Demonstration Base Unveiled
Recently, the Malaysian Fruit Farmers Association, Hainan Seed Industry Laboratory, and Joinhope Holding Group Co., Ltd. jointly signed the "Malaysia-China Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Center Framework Agreement" in Yongping County, Johor, Malaysia. The cooperation center is an innovative platform for coordinating bilateral scientific research resources, jointly carrying out technological research, and promoting the exchange of talents, opening up a pragmatic path for China-Malaysia tropical agricultural scientific research collaboration, technology demonstration and achievement transformation.
Xu Laian, President of Malaysian Fruit Farmers Association, Xu Jiaming, General Manager of Wuhe Agricultural Company, Yang Xinquan, Deputy Director of Hainan Seed Industry Laboratory, and Wang Changhai, researcher of Joinhope Science Development Research Institute, jointly participated in the signing. After the signing ceremony, representatives of the co-construction units jointly unveiled the Malaysia-China agricultural science and technology cooperation demonstration base. The demonstration base is the physical carrier for the cooperation center to land in the field, focusing on the introduction of new varieties, agronomic technology integration demonstration, scientific research results localization transformation, to create a set of experimental demonstration, technology promotion, personnel training, results output in one of the international agricultural science and technology position, to help tropical agriculture high-quality sustainable development.
After the signing and unveiling activities, the Chinese cooperation team went to Malaysia University of Potra (UPM) to carry out cooperation and exchange meeting. Li Zhenxing, vice president of the Agricultural College UmaRaniSinniah and science and technology counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Malaysia, attended and delivered a speech. Li Zhenxing congratulated the signing and unveiling of the contract, and affirmed the industry-university-research cooperation model with enterprises as the main body and scientific research institutions as the support. He said that agricultural science and technology is an important growth point for mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Malaysia. He expects the platform to be based on industrial demand, promote high-quality varieties and advanced agronomy to Malaysia, and let scientific and technological achievements benefit local farmers and the entire agricultural industry chain.
Relying on the base test platform, durian garden interplanting Sesbania ecological cultivation, sweet corn, silage corn, melon introduction test has achieved phased results. In view of the problem of fertility decline in local orchards, the base innovates and promotes the interplanting mode of legume green manure Tianjing orchards, relying on the characteristics of nitrogen fixation to improve soil fertility, optimize the use of water and fertilizer, reduce chemical fertilizer input, and improve fruit quality. The introduced new varieties of corn and melon are suitable for tropical soil and water conditions, with stable growth and good adaptability in the field.
A series of experiments take into account ecological, economic and social benefits, and gradually form a standardized planting scheme suitable for tropical producing areas in Southeast Asia, providing practical samples for the green transformation of regional tropical agriculture. In the future, the co-construction partners will continue to deepen the sharing of germplasm resources, joint research on key technologies, demonstration and promotion, and exchange visits of talents. They will continue to carry out variety screening and supporting technology research and development around corn, melon, tropical green manure, etc., export a replicable tropical green agricultural technology system, and promote the transformation of high-quality varieties and technologies in Malaysia and Southeast Asia.
Source/Institute of Scientific Development Wang Changhai Mao YongweiEdit/Zhang Lei
Audit/Zhong Yaru
