Visit by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Leaders of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences visited the Massey College of Sciences at Manawatu for the first time on November 14.

The academy and Massey are members of a food science consortium established at Wageningen University, Holland, earlier this year.

The academy was established in 1957 and affiliated to the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture. It is the sole national comprehensive research and development institution in agriculture in China. It conducts research and development activities in all agricultural fields except fishery and tropical crops and has 39 research institutes, a graduate school and a publishing house. Among the 10,000 staff are 6000 scientists.