China Launches Project on Climate Change Impact on Agricultural Production

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) recently launched a five-year public welfare project on climate change impact on agricultural production and coping techniques. The scientists will do a comprehensive analysis of  characteristics of climate change impact based on the existing results of climate change research. 

This project will focus on cultivation, fertilizer and water management, coping techniques with the pest ecology changes and production control of fruit trees and major crops such as rice, wheat, corn, soybean, rapeseed, cotton, citrus and apple. It will also conduct a study on breeding management, field care environment and facilities, coping techniques with the disease changes and production control of the major livestock animals such as dairy cattle, laying hen and pig. This project aims to provide technical reserves and protection for the sustainable development of agriculture under the context of climate change in the future.

The project research team will consist of nearly 50 Chinese scientists engaged in the study of climate change, agro-ecology, agricultural resources and the environment, animal physiology regulation and related fields. 

According to the MOA, "Implementation of the project will promote the systematic and sustained research on China's agricultural response to climate change and set up the basic data and basic work for agricultural production that addresses climate change. This project will become the window for China's agricultural sector action to mitigate climate change and for international cooperation and exchange".

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