(Focus on CAEXPO) China joins hands with ASEAN to offer "grain" plan
China News Agency, Nanning, September 18th: China joins ASEAN to offer "grain" plan
Author Yang Chen Lin Jieqi
China's rice seeds blossom and bear fruit on the land of ASEAN countries, and finally serve the Chinese people's table. Such an interesting "reincarnation" is frequently staged.
But whether this grain of "reincarnation" of rice can provide ideas for solving global food security governance has attracted great attention from all walks of life in the 19th China-ASEAN Expo (referred to as the China-ASEAN Expo).
"A Grain of Rice" in China-ASEAN Reincarnation
As a region with a huge population of 2 billion, China-ASEAN food security foundation is not solid, it is related to the food and clothing of the people in the region, and it is also related to whether the world can achieve the goal of "zero hunger" as scheduled by 2030.
The picture shows the rice and fish farming technology exhibited at the China-ASEAN Expo.
Photo by Edison Chen
In recent years, China-ASEAN has successively implemented more than 200 agricultural cooperation technology exchange projects, such as pest control and high-yield rice cultivation management, and established a number of agricultural technology demonstration bases and experimental stations for excellent crop varieties, which have consolidated the foundation of food security in the region. .
"Relying on China's advantages in hybrid rice, we have carried out cooperation in the promotion of hybrid rice in many ASEAN countries." said Li Buxun, director of the rice industry management department of Longping High-tech in China. "Father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping and his team based on the soil environment and climatic conditions of ASEAN before his death. , and developed different varieties of hybrid rice suitable for it.
The picture shows the sea rice products on display at the China-ASEAN Expo.
Photo by Edison Chen
After more than 20 years of cooperative breeding, Chinese hybrid rice can be seen on a large scale in ASEAN countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
These "magic rice" from China solve the "eating problem" of ASEAN people and improve people's livelihood. At the same time, the rice is also sold to China in large quantities, driving the rapid growth of bilateral agricultural trade, making ASEAN the largest agricultural trading partner of China.
Two-way investment has been steadily advanced, covering agricultural production, processing, warehousing and logistics, and services.
China joins hands with ASEAN to offer "grain" plan
Due to geopolitical conflicts and other reasons, the world food crisis has intensified.
To this end, China has joined hands with ASEAN to offer a "grain" plan.
During the current CAEXPO, Philippine Deputy Minister of Agriculture Messidita Sobira and Cambodian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries State Secretary Ho Wanhong both proposed in their video speeches that ASEAN and China should strengthen agricultural exchanges and cooperation, unblock food trade channels, and enhance food reserve capacity to better respond to crises.
According to Sun Tan, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China is speeding up the preparation of the "China-ASEAN Agricultural Green Development Action Plan", strengthening scientific and technological cooperation with ASEAN in the fields of green recycling agriculture, green prevention and control of animal and plant pathogens, and improving the resilience of agricultural development in various countries. and sustainability.
The unstable supply chain is one of the "pain points" of the current world agricultural trade.
According to Nong Duc, Commercial Counselor of the Vietnamese Embassy in China, improving the level of infrastructure connectivity between countries will make cross-border agricultural trade more convenient.
Tan Yanwen, a professor at South China Agricultural University, also believes that strengthening trade negotiations, stabilizing regional agricultural supply chains, and establishing and improving coordination guarantee mechanisms and agricultural cooperation risk early warning mechanisms will help ensure effective regional supply and market stability.
At the site of the China-ASEAN Expo, Shanghai Ocean University "appeared" with its integrated rice and fishery planting and breeding research technology.
The project is being tested and demonstrated in Cambodia and Laos and has made good progress, which will provide new ideas for deepening China-ASEAN agricultural cooperation.
China-ASEAN pragmatic cooperation has released positive signals.
Guo Libin, deputy director of the Foreign Economic Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, said that the region has contributed East Asian wisdom to the governance of world food security and set an example for East Asia.
"Smart" Farming Strengthens Food Security Resilience
Smart farming methods such as information technology, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology are regarded as new ways to solve global food problems.
With the "blessing" of precise and intelligent equipment and digital agricultural operating systems, agricultural production efficiency is expected to be greatly improved.
Datuk Seri Haji Ahmed Hamzah, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry of Malaysia, said that many residents in the country have combined traditional farming methods with modern smart farming techniques in limited urban space to achieve Self-sufficiency and lower carbon emissions.
Wang Xiaobing, director of the Information Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, suggested that China-ASEAN regard smart agriculture as a new growth point for cooperation, promote the cross-border flow of data and information in the information field, and strengthen exchanges and training on smart agricultural technologies.
"Hui" farms, but also "Hui" sells.
Wang Xiaobing said that e-commerce has become an important channel for the sale of agricultural products and will play an irreplaceable role in stabilizing the world's grain production and supply.
This year's CAEXPO exhibited China's sea rice planting technology for the first time.
This technology can guide people to grow sea rice on the seaside saline-alkali tidal flats, promote ecological governance and food security, and may bring good news to China-ASEAN and even the world's coastal areas.
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