The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (short CAAS, Chinese: 中国农业科学院) is the Chinese national, agricultural scientific research organization.
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| Formed | March 1, 1957 | ||||||
| Jurisdiction | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs | ||||||
| Headquarters | Beijing, China 39°58′02″N 116°20′04″E / 39.967313°N 116.334506°E | ||||||
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| Website | www | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 中國農業科學院 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 中国农业科学院 | ||||||
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It was established in 1957 in Beijing and oversees 45 institutes. Thirty-six are direct affiliates, nine institutes are co-hosted together with local governments or universities. It has more than 5,000 professional employees.[1][2]
The Academy building contains offices of several Chinese policy institutions such as the China Association for the Promotion of International Agricultural Cooperation (CAPIAC, 中国农业国际合作促进会) established in 1998.[3][4] One of CAPIAC's branches is the International Cooperation Committee for Animal Welfare (ICCAW), established in 2011.[5] In 2017, ICCAW hosted a farm animal welfare conference together with UN Food and Agriculture Organization, RSPCA, Compassion in World Farming, the U.S. Meat Export Federation and the U.S. National Pork Board.[6]
In 2023, CAAS and Tencent announced a partnership to establish a Digital Seed Bank at the Tencent Science and Technology Museum.[7] The Digital Seed Bank includes digital displays of germplasm resources preserved at the National Crop Genebank of China, along with seed-storage and breeding technologies.[7]
List of institutes
- Beijing branch[2]
- Crop Sciences Institute
- Plant Protection Institute
- Vegetable and Flower Research Institute
- Institute of Agricultural Environment and Sustainable Development
- Beijing Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine
- Bee Research Institute
- Feed Research Institute
- Agricultural Products Processing Research Institute
- Institute of Biotechnology
- Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development
- Institute of Agricultural Resources and Agricultural Regional Planning
- Agricultural Information Research Institute
- Institute of Agricultural Quality Standards and Testing Technology
- Institute of Food and Nutrition Development, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
- China Agricultural Science and Technology Press
- Outside of Beijing
- Farmland Irrigation Research Institute
- Rice Research Institute
- Cotton Research Institute
- Oil Crops Research Institute
- Hemp Research Institute
- Fruit Research Institute
- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute
- Tea Research Institute
- Harbin Veterinary Research Institute
- Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute
- Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute
- Grassland Research Institute
- Specialty Research Institute
- Environmental Protection Research and Monitoring Institute
- Biogas Science Institute
- Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization
- Tobacco Research Institute
- Shenzhen Agricultural Genome Research Institute
- Urban Agriculture Research Institute
- Co-hosted institutes
- Citrus Research Institute
- Beet Research Institute
- Sericulture Research Institute
- China Agricultural Heritage Research Office
- Buffalo Institute
- Grassland Ecological Research Institute
- Poultry Research Institute
- Sweet Potato Research Institute