Water Saving Agriculture for the Arid and Semi-arid Regions

Comprehensive considerations are given to Production factors such as choice of crops, soil, meteorology, fertilizer application, farm management, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering technology, dripping irrigation and other new irrigation technologies, These are the research subjects of the newly formed thematic "Water Saving Agriculture Research Center" at CAAS. The center pulls expertise from 6 CAAS institutes.

Institues involved in WSARC

Research Institute of Farm Irrgation in Henan

Institute of Agro-meterology , Beijing

Scientech Documentation and Information Center, Beijing

Institue of Crop Breeding and Cultivation, Beijing

Institute of Natural Resources Management and, Beijing Regionalization

Agro-environment Protection Institute, Tianjing