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Scholars on oats breeding and processing are invited to join an international workshop in Baicheng City, China
This workshop will be held from 25 to 28 June 2004, in Baicheng City, Jilin Province, China. Tours to an oat demonstration region, and to Xianghai Natural Protection Region for Red-crowned Crane are included.
The main theme is on the significance of oat production and advancement of RTD on oats.
Application deadline: May 2004
Selected experts will be paid for national and international travels and accommodation.
Contact: xsjn03@mail.jl.cn, or contact@irit-ari.com
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2004
China-Canada International Workshop
On
Strategic Development of Oats
June 23-26, 2004
Baicheng,
Jilin, China
Hosted by:
Government of Baicheng City, Jilin, China
State Administration of Foreign Experts Affair, China
Organized
by: Baicheng
Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jilin, China
Provincial Administration of Foreign
Experts Affair, Jilin, China
Sponsored
and Supported by:
Provincial Government of
Jilin, China
Chinese Academy of Sciences
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Department of International Cooperation and Exchange, Ministry of
Education, China
948 Office, Ministry of Agriculture, China
Department of Science & Technology of Jilin Province, China
Agriculture Committee of Jilin Province, China
Department of Human resources of Jilin Province, China
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
Asia & Pacific Center for Agriculture Engineering and Machinery, UN
Contact
:
Dr. Jianqiang Zhou (Chair Person)
East Cereal
and Oilseed Research Center, Agricul-ture & Agri-Food Canada,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Fax:(613)-7591701,
Email: zhouj@agr.gc.ca
Prof. Changzhong Ren (general Secretary)
Baicheng Academy of Agricultural
Sciences, Baicheng, Jilin, China
Tel: 0436-3352402
Fax:
0436-3323241, Email: xsjn03@mail.jl.cn
or bcnykxy@hotmail.com
Background:
Oat is one of the major cereal
grains in the world. It thrives in
cool and semi-drought climates and is well adaptable to many soil types
including alkali and lean soils. With these agronomic characteristics, oat is
suitable to grow in the western regions of China as well as other similar areas
of the world. Oats will assume
greater importance as functional food and quality feed in the 21st century with
its favorable characteristics. In
fact, oat planting in marginal territory and rural regions will also help local
farmers for increasing the grain production and improving the ecological
environment.
China is the hometown of naked oats and Canada is a main producer of oats. The collaboration between scientists at the Baicheng Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Jilin, and those at Agriculture Canada in oat development has been very successful during the past years. In the Baicheng district, the experimental trial to grow oats on land designated as “degenerate pasture” or “wastelands”, and on fields previously planted with low value crops oats have demonstrated the success of using oat as an alternative crop. Positively, the planting of oats improves the income and the stabilization of the local farming community.
The continued success of the
current project in the Baicheng district will serve as a show-case for similar
agricultural development projects that appear to be possible in many of the
western provinces of China.
To demonstrate the progress and success attained so far by the introduction of Canada oats in selected regions of China, a China-Canada international workshop on oats will be hold in Baicheng, Jilin, China, on June 23-26, 2004. Participants at the workshop will evaluate the significance and potential of expanded oat production as an alternative to grain output, and its impact on the agricultural ecology. This workshop will also strengthen the international cooperation on the oats development with other countries.
Topics in the oat workshop
1. The significance of oat planting in increasing
global grain output and stabilizing the Chinese grain production. -Advantages,
potentiality and problems for oat development in China.
2.The impact of oat production on improving the ecological environment, adjusting the agricultural structures, developing animal farming, and increasing income of farmers in the western regions of China.
3. The relationship between sustainable development of
agriculture and improvement of dietary structures. -The health impact of oats as
a functional food on human diet.
4. The state-of-art of oat planting, research and
development in China and Canada.
-Discussions on genetic resources, technological advantages, and market
development. -Discussions on the
strategies of comprehensive oat development.
5. Progress report on the establishment of the oat
research center and the buildup of the oat planting base in Baicheng district.
Visiting oats production fields in different agronomic conditions and breeding
base in Baicheng Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Organizing Committee:
Dr.
Jianiqiang Zhou (Chair Person), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Prof.
Changzhong Ren (General Secretary),
Mr.
Yanfeng Zhang ,
Mr.
Xishuang Jin,
Dr.
Ning Zhang, Department of
International Cooperation & Exchanges, Ministry of Education, China
Prof. Jinghua
Cao,
Dr. Feng Feng,
Dr. Ying Liu,
Advisory
Committee:
China:
Mr. Hu Hong
(Honorary Chairman),
Dr. Xiaoguang
Chen,
Prof. Yiyu Chen,
National Natural Science
Foundation of China
Ms.
Bing Li, Deputy General
Director, State Administration of Foreign
Experts Affair, China
Dr. Shuying Liu,
Prof. Yin Dai,
Mr. Guoxing Cao,
Mr. Runpu Liu,
Mr. Qingyou Yue,
Canada:
Dr.
Bruce Archibald (Honorary Chairman),
Dr.
Yvon Martel, Chief
Scientist, International Affairs, Agriculture &Agri-Food Canada
Dr.
Stephen Morgan Jones,
Dr.
Vernon Burrows,
Mr.
Waiter Redekop,
Special
Invitation:
Dr.
Tapio Juokslanti,
For More Information Contact:
E-mail: contact@irit-ari.com
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