Hubei Province Lianfeng Overseas Agric. development Group Co., Ltd.

Type of Organization

Enterprise

Type of cooperation

Technology transfer, Foreign cooperation

Region

Asia and the Pacific

FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

Agricultural production technology

COOPERATION

Type of cooperation

Technology transfer, Foreign cooperation

Current Cooperating countries

Mozambique, Zimbabwe

Potential Cooperating Countries

Malawi

South-South and Triangular Cooperation

Summary of Projects and Achievements

In recent years, in order to consolidate the achievements made under the Belt and Road Initiative, Hubei Lianfeng Overseas Agriculture Development Group Co., Ltd.(“the Group” for short) has gradually invested its main resources in the implementation of agricultural projects in Mozambique, Africa. Through cooperation with local government agencies, the Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique, local large state-owned enterprises, cooperatives, local farmers, etc., relying on the overseas agricultural demonstration park established in Mozambique, the Group has carried out the test, demonstration and promotion of agriculture-related planting, irrigation and agricultural machinery technology, achieving good social and economic benefits in the local area. Recent project results are as follows:

1. Demonstration of technical test

In the salinity-resistant rice test, saline-alkali tolerant hybrid rice varieties in Mozambique are selected. The test has laid a foundation for the demonstration, identification, evaluation, selection, and cultivation of saline-alkali tolerant rice in Mozambique.

In the straw-mulched potato planting technique test, the potato planting techniques suitable for Mozambique are selected. The test has provided scientific basis for recommending potato varieties for potato cultivation in Mozambique.

2. Technical training

A total of four training activities including rice weeding technology training, vegetable planting technology training, soil testing and fertilization technology training, agricultural irrigation water training and other training activities were carried out with the participants including technical personnel from local agricultural and scientific research colleges and universities, a total of 80 beneficiaries.

Major SSTC Projects

China-Mozambique Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center

Project period: 2009-present

Location: Boane, Maputo Province, Mozambique

Activity:

1. The Demonstration Center now has an investment of 40 million yuan, a land area of 33 ha (excluding planting and breeding area) and experimental demonstration planting area of 19 ha. It has built office complex, expert dormitory buildings, trainee canteens, livestock breeding houses, processing and storage houses, trainee dormitories, and agricultural machinery shed, with a construction area of more than 4,000m2.

2. In 2017, the China-Mozambique Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre became one of the first batch of pilot agricultural demonstration zones outside China recognized by the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China, and is an important local experimental park for rice and vegetable planting technology. Through cooperation with Mozambique Academy of Agricultural Sciences, all kinds of personnel, including officials, technicians, farmers and demonstration farmer households, were trained in planting techniques, so as to achieve the diffusion effect from point to area and enhance the leading role of the Demonstration Center.

3. Since entering the technical cooperation and independent operation period in 2012, the demonstration centre has introduced 202 varieties of rice, sesame, maize, vegetables, soybeans, cotton and excellent livestock and poultry from China and screened out more than 30 crop varieties suitable for cultivation in Mozambique. Meanwhile, more than 20 advanced and practical technologies such as full mechanized rice cultivation, water-saving irrigation, mulching cultivation and comprehensive pest control have been promoted to the entire territory of Mozambique and its neighbouring countries, achieving good results. More than 300 people were trained each year, mainly including local agricultural officials, agricultural technicians and agricultural producers.

Hubei-Gaza Friendship Farm

Project period: 2009-present

Location: Xai-Xai, Gaza Province, Mozambique

Activity:

1. Since it has been completed and put into use in 2009, Hubei-Gaza Friendship Farm has completed investment of 28 million yuan, has a land area of 35 ha (excluding the planting and breeding area), planting area of 115 ha, one rice processing production line with daily capacity of 30 tons, office building and warehouses of 2600㎡, more than 30 sets of agricultural machinery equipment and irrigation and drainage ditches, pumping stations, culverts and gates, and production roads. A complete industrial chain has been formed for planting, harvesting and processing in the Farm.

2. The area where the Hubei-Gaza Friendship Farm is located is one of the main rice growing areas in the region. The Farm adopts a "company + farmer" cooperation model, which involves farmers with arable land in the production of the base and helps them improve their agricultural production techniques, increase their income and improve their living conditions through a combination of theory and practice.

3. By adopting modern scientific planting methods and management techniques, and choosing the high quality and salinity resistant "Huazhen No.1" and "Silkmiao" varieties, Hubei-Gaza Friendship Farm has achieved high and stable yields, with an average yield of nearly 500 kg per mu which is three times higher than the average yield of 150 kg per mu of local farmers.