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Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>
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*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow a self-explanatory message from Professor Li Hongwen
in Beijing regarding the recent establishment of the China Institute for
Conservation Tillage to accelerate the expansion of adoption and spread of
Conservation Agriculture in China.  China already has some 9 million
hectares of Conservation Agriculture.

Thank you Professor Li for sharing this exciting news.

Warmest congratulations for this exciting initiative. We wish you and your
colleagues and all the stakeholders including farmers every success.

*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture



*Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical
application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked
principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance
(no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with
all other farm operations including harvesting);  (ii) permanent
maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops);
and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally
and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations
involving annuals and/or perennials, including legumes and cover crops),
along with other complementary good agricultural production and land
management practices. Conservation Agriculture systems are present in all
continents, involving rainfed and irrigated systems including annual
cropland systems, perennial systems, orchards and plantation systems,
agroforestry systems, crop-livestock systems, pasture and rangeland
systems, organic production systems and rice-based systems. Conservation
Tillage, Reduced Tillage and Minimum Tillage are not Conservation
Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its own* (more at:
http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture).

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Li Hongwen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 23:52
Subject: 答复:
To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: Friedrich, Theodor (AGPC) <[log in to unmask]>


Dear  Amir and Theodor:


Thank you for your email.  China Agricultural University has established
China Institute for Conservation Tillage. You can read more about the
Institute from:


http://www.cn-ct.net/news/451.html


I am the director, and I will be continue the head of Conservation Tillage
Research Centre.


The new Institute, like the Research Centre, will focus on promoting and
supporting the adoption and spread of Conservation Agriculture systems in
China at all levels.


Please distribute the news to CA-CoP, thanks.



Li Hongwen

Director

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