*CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable production intensification* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow a message from Prof. Li Hongwen, Director of the Centre for Conservation Agriculture Research in Beijing. This is excellent news regarding Conservation Agriculture (CA) in China. Although the announcement mentions Conservation Tillage (CT), in China the focus is on CA. In China, due to historical reasons, they use the term CT when they actually mean CA. *Amir Kassam * *Moderator* e-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Li Hongwen <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:36 AM Subject: China Premier Li Keqiang says to extend conservation tillage To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]> Dear Amir: China Premier Li Keqiang Published a paper on Qiushi - "Seeking Truth" - a magazine of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, talking about modernizing agriculture. In the paper, when he talks about ‘promote sustainable agriculture development’, he says to extend conservation tillage. This magazine also publish English version, but later than Chinese version, so now I can only show you the Chinese version, http://www.qstheory.cn/dukan/qs/2015-02/15/c_1114350575.htm The English version will be on , http://english.qstheory.cn/latestissue/index.htm Li Hongwen ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);