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June 9, 2011
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At present, the biggest challenge for China's agriculture production is drought on lower-middle reaches of Yangtze River. It is expected the drought will impact China's rice production seriously because the region is the major rice production in China.
As an industry highly related with agriculture production, Chinese government has shown strong determination to enhance the development of seed industry. Chinese government held Modern Crop Seed Industry Conference in Changsha City in May, which is the highest level conference in domestic seed industry.
As for GM crop, the government seems to be very cautious about the development of GM crops at present because of the strong objection on the commercialization of GM crop in the general public. The government invited several well-known figures to discuss issues about GM crop, aiming to collect various opinions about the commercialization of GM crop. Besides, the government started to survey the possibility of illegal cultivation of GM crop and asked breeders to clear up the GM germplasm resources.
To safeguard the quality and quantity of seed products, many leading seed companies are trying to build seed processing plant at present. Gansu, the most ideal region for seed production in China, is appreciated by most of the seed companies.
Chinese government held discussion meetings to collect opinions about commercialization of GM crop, showing the government's caution about the development of GM crop.
On 8 May 2011, State Council held the conference in Changsha City to discuss the details and implement the suggestions.
With the fast development of domestic potato industry, the demand for virus-free potato seed increases quickly.
Shandong Shengfeng engages researchers from domestic research institutes and universities to enhance its R&D capability.
Origin Agritech has kicked off a corn seed production project in Xinjiang and shall found a joint venture to expand Northwest China channels and enhance seed production.
Longping High-tech is building a corn seed processing factory in Gansu striving to expand its corn seed business.
Henan Goldoctor started to build a seed processing plant in Gansu to expand its seed processing capacity.
Shandong Denghai plans to build a modern corn seed processing factory in Zhangye to expand corn seed production.
Recently, Shanghai Green Super Rice R&D Center has been established by Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center.
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