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973 Program on grassland productivity underway
Grassland is one of the largest terrestrial ecosystems in China, occupies 41.7% of the total land area. Grassland is important for agriculture as it provides pasture for livestock, prevent wind and water erosion, provides habitat for animals and plants, to mention a few. However, poor grazing management decrease the average height of grassland plants by 50-60% that leads to a significant decrease of grassland productivity with the economic loss of about 613 billion RMB annually. Therefore deliberate effort to restore and improve the degradation of the grassland productivity and ecosystem functions is unavoidable, and it needs immediate attention.
Thus, the program Regulation Mechanism and Pathway of Grassland Productivity (RMPGP) was introduce and is underway now. This is one of the National Key Basic Research Program in China (973 program) which was approved and financed by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) with the total budget of 24 million RMB.
The programme will commence this year 2014 and terminate in the year 2018. A team of more than 30 scientists will be involved in this program, among of them most are from Institute of Grassland Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IGR-CAAS), the Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xinan University, Chongqin University, and researchers from University of Arizona (USA) and the AgResearch Limited (New Zealand) are also invited to contribute to this program.
According to Dr. Hou Xiangyang, Director-general of the IGR-CAAS and Chief Scientist of the project, the main missions of RMPGP are: 1) to reveal the key mechanisms of grassland productivity reduction under improper grazing management; 2) to provide new tools for the recovery of degraded grassland productivity.
Thus, the program Regulation Mechanism and Pathway of Grassland Productivity (RMPGP) was introduce and is underway now. This is one of the National Key Basic Research Program in China (973 program) which was approved and financed by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) with the total budget of 24 million RMB.
The programme will commence this year 2014 and terminate in the year 2018. A team of more than 30 scientists will be involved in this program, among of them most are from Institute of Grassland Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IGR-CAAS), the Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xinan University, Chongqin University, and researchers from University of Arizona (USA) and the AgResearch Limited (New Zealand) are also invited to contribute to this program.
According to Dr. Hou Xiangyang, Director-general of the IGR-CAAS and Chief Scientist of the project, the main missions of RMPGP are: 1) to reveal the key mechanisms of grassland productivity reduction under improper grazing management; 2) to provide new tools for the recovery of degraded grassland productivity.
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