During the meeting, Wu fully acknowledged the close partnership between CAAS and IPNI for the past two decades. He pointed out that plant nutrition is a vital subject that draws attention of the international community, due to its significant importance in ensuring food security and safety. In recent past, issues on food safety and environment pollution have created intriguing debate worldwide, unfortunately, not much has been done as the problems still existing especially in the fertilizer management and application.

“I would like to see the collaboration growing stronger especially in the area of crop nutrition and soil fertilizer management base on the ‘Plant Nutrition Joint Innovation Laboratory’ co-founded by CAAS and IPNI. The collaboration will not only promote agricultural productivity but also promote environment’s sustainable development.”, as Wu said during the meeting.

Roberts appreciated Wu’s proposals, and commented by saying that the first committee meeting of the joint lab held two days ago has been very successful. He continued, “Compared with other countries, the collaboration with China has been more unique and effective. Hoped the joint lab, will continue to develop new area of interest that can be applicable in the international programs”.

At the end of the meeting, both sides reached a broad consensus on collaborative objectives and modality to achieve the objectives.

 

By Huang Dandan
huangdandan@caas.cn