Promote the Development of the Seed Industry, says China's Vice Minister of Agriculture

Chinese Vice Minister for Agriculture Zhang Taolin calls for the need to promote the development of the seed industry in China. Zhang, speaking at the first China Agricultural Scientific and Technological Innovation Forum, emphasized the need to speed up technological innovations in the seed industry.

"We should increase the ability of technological innovation of seed enterprises, scale up support for science and technology, reorganize and consolidate scientific and technological forces, and prioritize basic and non-profit researches conducted by scientific institutes and universities on germplasm resource innovation, breeding theories and methods," Zhang said.

Zhang also called authorities to "scale up management of seed industry, revise and improve relevant regulations and rules, improve examination criteria of varieties and threshold of market access, and standardize the examination, production and operation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)."

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