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The “Joint German-Chinese Demonstration Farm Ganhe”, implemented by AFC together with its partner, DLG International, is now running in its fifth year. The project is financed under the bilateral cooperation programme by the German Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV).
The project is located in Inner Mongolia, neighbouring Heilongjiang province, which is a major agricultural machinery province, with a high scale of agricultural mechanisation and an advanced level of both, farming machinery and equipment, ranking top in China.
The project partners therefore decided to participate this year in the Baidahuang International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, organised under the leadership of the provincial government in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province.
Our four German machinery companies (Claas, Lemken, Grimme and Rauch) were able to demonstrate their modern agricultural machinery adapted to the conditions in northern China.
The exhibition was held jointly with the “Agri & Food Expo Harbin”, and was accompanied by the “AgriWorld Conference” with international speakers, including a Global G.A.P. Forum and a Plenary on Ecological Agriculture and Food Safety as well as a Forum of New Machinery Services and Agricultural Modernisation and a Press Conference on New Technologies and Products for Agricultural Machinery, in which our partners also participated.
As part of the AgriWorld Conference, the project held its annual press conference, which was well organised as usual by Mrs. Zhang Li, Managing Director of the DLG office in Beijing and moderated by Mr. Karl-Martin Lüth, Senior Consultant at DLG. Following a welcome speech by Mr. Martin Lüth, Mr. Li Jun, Director of the State Farm Bureau of Heilongjiang Province welcomed the guests from the Chinese side and opened the conference.
Approximately 100 guests representing media, universities and state farms listened to the progress report of the demonstration farm, given by Mr. Bunge, team leader of the project. His report summarised the achievements of 5 years project work and demonstrated clearly how modern adapted plant production techniques and machinery can result in higher yields, soil rehabilitation and lower diesel consumption.
Mr. Bunge highlighted also the importance of the joint elaboration of strategies and ideas by Chinese and German experts to solve problems at the Ganhe state farm and further stressed the importance of training and education in the agricultural sector in China.
The four German agricultural machinery companies gave an overview of their products and their development in China and highlighted the support received from the project and especially its PR activities, which facilitated their activities in the Chinese market.
The following questions and answers session between the visitors and the podium of speakers showed not only the enormous interest in improved agricultural production that the project can now demonstrate, but also in cooperation with the project and the offer to provide practical and theoretical training in form of seminars in other regions in northern China.
The conference ended with a dinner reception, which gave the opportunity for further discussion with and questions to the national and international speakers.
Contact for further information:
leely [at] dlg.org.cn
tesa.weiss [at] afci.deor johannes.buschmeier [at] afci.de