On February 23, 27, at the invitation of the International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Gansu Province for the Improvement of Superior Crop Germplasm, a delegation from Central Asia of the International Potato Center, consisting of four experts from the Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics of the Tajik Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Melons and Potatoes of Uzbekistan, and the Department of Crop Production and Protection of the Kyrgyz University, visited our university to discuss joint scientific research The personnel training and exchange of foreign students are connected.
Bi Yang, Vice President, heads of the International Exchange and Social Cooperation Division, the Institute of Science and Technology Development and experts in related fields attended the symposium. Bi Yang briefly introduced the development situation, characteristic disciplines, teaching staff, etc. of our school. He said that the innovative scientific research team of Gansu Agricultural University in potato industry has strong strength and outstanding achievements, forming a potato planting resource innovation, biotechnology breeding, virus-free seed potato production, high-quality water-saving production, integrated pest control, safe anti-corrosion storage, potato combine harvester The technology of potato starch processing and comprehensive utilization of by-products is integrated into a complete research chain. It is hoped that through this docking, the school can establish a stable communication and exchange mechanism with research institutions in countries along the "the Belt and Road", and promote the quality and efficiency of agricultural production in Central Asia, especially potatoes and other major food crops.
During the symposium, experts from the Central Asian delegation introduced the basic situation of their countries and the current situation of agricultural production, and hoped to start the work of germplasm resources exchange, joint scientific research, technical training, and student cultivation with our school as soon as possible. Accompanied by the staff of our university's Guohe Base, the delegation successively visited the school's cognitive museum, the national laboratory cultivation base, the experimental practice teaching bases of the College of Agriculture, the College of Life Science and Technology, and the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, and carried out academic exchanges with our school's crop stress resistance research team, mainly around the joint organization of the application project, the exchange of stress resistant germplasm resources, and the exchange between teachers and students. In addition, the Central Asian delegation went to the Agricultural Trade Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Vegetable and Flower Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Yanqing Base of the Asia Pacific Branch of the International Potato Center, the Xiangquan Township of Dingxi and other research institutes and enterprises that have cooperation projects with our school, and conducted field visits.