The guests tasted the vegetable varieties on the spot and communicated with the merchants.
This expo focuses on displaying more than 4,300 varieties of vegetables, which attracts people's attention.
The guests from Taiwan had on-site exchanges with the relevant persons in charge of Xiamen Zhongxia Vegetable Seeds. (Photo by Liu Xiaodong).
Yesterday morning, the 2023 Xiamen Seed Industry Expo and Cross-Strait (Xiamen) Seed Industry Expo officially kicked off in the Cross-Strait Modern Agriculture Demonstration Park in Xiang'an District.
With the theme of "Building the Dream of 'Three Rurals' on Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait - Building a Dream of Building a Dream of Xiamen Seeds and Strong Cores", this year's Cross-Strait Seed Expo brought together more than 300 enterprises and scientific research units, focusing on the display of more than 4,300 vegetable varieties, and the number of exhibitors and varieties hit a new high.
The cross-strait seed fair is guided by the people of Xiamen City, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center, the Fujian Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the Fujian Academy of Agricultural SciencesXiamen Xiang'an District People**, Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Institute of Vegetables and Flowers;Xiamen Xiang'an District Agriculture and Rural Bureau undertakes;Xiamen Xiang'an Investment Group *** Xiamen International Trade Phoenix International Exhibition *** specific implementation.
The Seed Expo has been held in Xiang'an for two consecutive years, aiming to continue to play the leading role of the Expo, enhance the market position of the local seed industry at home and abroad, and at the same time introduce domestic and foreign seed industry leaders and research institutions to land in Xiang'an District, give full play to the advantages of Xiamen's location and seed and seedling industry, and comprehensively improve the level of Xiamen's seed industry. Xiang'an District also made it clear at the opening ceremony that it hopes to work with all partners to sow seeds of hope, strive to grasp China's seeds, expand the national seed industry, and actively promote the integrated development of the seed industry on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
It is understood that the cross-strait seed fair was held from December 28th to 30th, a three-day period, in addition to on-site activities, there are vegetable seed industry innovation and development forum, seed and seedling industry summit forum and other supporting activities.
A new platform for seed industry
More than 4,300 vegetable varieties are displayed in the "experimental field", focusing on solving problems.
The exhibition area of this cross-strait seed fair is 150 acres, including open field planting area and greenhouse planting area, which has increased significantly compared with last year. In these exhibition areas, more than 300 enterprises participating in the expo displayed more than 4,300 vegetable varieties from all over the country, covering nightshade fruits, melons, cruciferous flowers, leafy vegetables, root vegetables, and corn.
The number of guests and merchants participating in this expo exceeded 1,000. They can go down to the field to observe up close and exchange breeding experience in the fieldYou can also taste on the spot and feel the deep flavor of different vegetable varieties "at zero distance" - this face-to-face contact further promotes point-to-point negotiation**, and the results are remarkable.
In addition, the greenhouse theme exhibition area, which is the highlight of the expo, has also attracted attention. This is a comprehensive exhibition area integrating variety display, knowledge popularization, and interactive check-in, which can intuitively understand the growth process, characteristics and uses of vegetable crops, which is both interesting and scientific.
It is worth mentioning that this cross-strait seed fair also set up a special breeding research display area - from the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Beijing Jielia Seed Industry, Xiamen Zhongxia Vegetable Seeds and other 10 scientific research institutes, universities and seed enterprises, including cabbage, cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli, a total of 369 vegetable varieties.
It can be regarded as the "experimental field" or "pioneer area" of vegetable breeding, which are carefully selected and bred with strong adaptability, high yield and excellent quality vegetable varieties, focusing on solving the problem of vegetable breeding, improving planting efficiency and quality, and promoting the green and sustainable development of the industry.
New cross-strait exchanges
8 Taiwanese enterprises brought 111 varieties of integrated development and achieved practical results.
The in-depth exchange and integrated development of agriculture between Fujian and Taiwan has become one of the most important themes of this cross-strait seed expo. Eight Taiwan enterprises brought 111 varieties of vegetables to the exhibition, showing the achievements of Taiwan enterprises in the field of agriculture and making cross-strait agricultural exchanges and cooperation go further. In addition to seedlings, Taiwan enterprises also brought modern agricultural production management experience and technology research and development achievements, and conducted exchanges and discussions with the help of the platform of the Cross-Strait Seed Expo.
In fact, Xiang'an seedlings and Taiwan seedlings have a deep relationship. As early as 1995, Wenxing Seedlings established a cooperative relationship with Taiwan's largest cruciferous crop seed producer - Taiwan Qingnong Seedlings, and in recent years, it has also continued to deepen cooperation with Taiwan's major seedling enterprises such as Nongyou and Qingnong. The largest dragon fruit planting base in Xiamen, Xiang'an Mansion, the earliest seedlings came from Taiwan.
At present, Xiang'an has become the main force of agricultural exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan, a total of 7 enterprises and Taiwan's seedling industry to establish cooperative relations, the two sides cooperate to sell more than 25,000 kilograms of seeds annually, the annual cooperation amount of more than 63 million yuan, can promote the planting area of about 2.2 million acres.
Next, Xiang'an District will also strive to introduce Taiwan's seed industry in the industrial research institute and the breeding research and development base of leading seed industry enterprises, form a modern urban agriculture cooperation mechanism with Fujian and Taiwan characteristics, and build a demonstration area for the integrated development of modern seed industry on both sides of the strait - seed industry first, and the two sides have started to explore a new road for the integrated development of modern agriculture in Fujian and Taiwan.
with the innovation pattern
9 new projects were signed to add new strength to the "seed team".
The seed industry is the "chip" of agriculture, and the promotion of improved varieties and quality improvement are the key to accelerating the development of the industry.
At the opening ceremony, Xiang'an District Agriculture and Rural Bureau, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, College of Life Sciences of Xiamen University and other government and enterprise units and scientific research institutes carried out the signing ceremony of 9 important cooperation projects. In addition to the strategic cooperation framework agreement, the signing also includes projects such as the construction of modern agricultural industry demonstration parks, seed and seedling breeding, as well as projects in different fields such as variety grafting and scientific and technological innovation.
In fact, Xiang'an's local enterprises have formed a variety of group advantages in the field of seed industry resources. At present, Xiang'an Zone has 13 first-class seed (seedling) enterprises, including 3 with a registered capital of more than 30 million yuan, 3 with seed import and export business qualifications, 1 provincial key agricultural industrialization leading enterprise, and 3 provincial key seed enterprises. In 2022, nearly 2,000 varieties will be sold, 95 million vegetable seedlings will be sold, and the turnover will be about 2300 million yuan, has been built in Yunnan, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and other places nearly 3,000 acres of good breeding base, built a sales network covering 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government) across the country.
The new signed projects will inject more vitality into Xiang'an's "seed team" - they will work together to deepen the collaborative innovation of the industrial chain in multiple dimensions through resource sharing, technical cooperation and market development, focus on industry, education and research, and continuously improve the competitiveness of the seed industry and the high-quality development of the industry in an all-round way.
Expand new ideas.
Industry leaders brainstorm and plan to draw a "rich" scene.
High-standard and high-level theme forums such as the Vegetable Seed Industry Innovation and Development Forum and the Seed and Seedling Industry Summit Forum, as the supporting activities of the Cross-Strait Seed Expo, brought together a number of academicians and business representatives to discuss the cutting-edge trends of seed industry science and technology, and "check the pulse" for the modernization and development of the seed industry.
The Vegetable Seed Industry Innovation and Development Forum focused on a wide range of topics such as tomato variety cultivation and food processing, digital transformation of facility agriculture, and financial support to promote the development of the agricultural industryAt the Seed and Seedling Industry Summit Forum, Wang Hanzhong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Zhu Jianxian, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences, and other experts, scholars and business representatives respectively made keynote reports on plant selenium efficient vegetable breeding, biological breeding, the current situation and prospect of vegetable seed industry, the development situation of vegetable industry, the prevention and control of major vegetable virus diseases, innovative breeding and the development of China's Xiang'an vegetable seed industry.
A number of experts and entrepreneurs have in-depth thinking about the important development direction and strategy of the seed industry, as well as their unique views on the future of agriculture, they believe that it is necessary to accelerate the research and development of key core technologies, continuously enhance the original innovation ability of the seed industry, promote the deep integration of the seed industry and other industries, and lead the rural revitalization with the development of the seed industry and build a new agricultural industry pattern.
Text: Xiamen** reporter Shao Lingfeng, correspondent Lin Yangtu (except for the signature) provided by the organizer.