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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, June 24 (Xinhua) — The China-Central Asia Joint Agricultural Laboratory for Dry Areas opened in Kazakhstan last week.
The opening ceremony of the laboratory took place on June 18 at the Kazakh Agrotechnical Research University named after S. Seifullin in Astana, writes the newspaper “Keji ribao”/daily newspaper “Science and Technology”/.
The new organization aims to deepen cooperation between China and Central Asian countries in agricultural science and technology and promote high-quality development in the joint construction of the Belt and Road.
The laboratory will become a platform for joint research, demonstration of technology application, technical training and training of specialists. Its staff will pay special attention to six areas, including crop breeding, high-efficiency crop production, modern livestock technologies, water-saving irrigation in agriculture, improvement of saline-saline soils, food processing and food safety.
According to Huang Siguang, secretary of the Party Committee of the Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University of Science and Technology, the establishment of the laboratory is a key step taken to promote scientific and technological innovation within the framework of the joint construction of the Belt and Road.
The university is ready to further deepen cooperation with stakeholders, he added.
The China-Central Asia Joint Agricultural Laboratory for Dry Areas project was approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China in October 2024. The founders of the laboratory are the Northwest University of Agriculture and Forestry, Kazakh National Agrarian Research University, S. Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical Research University, M. Kozybayev North Kazakhstan University and Tashkent State Agrarian University. -0-