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“Five Problems of Agricultural Projects to Aid Africa“ written by Professor Jiang Heping and postdoctoral Zhan Lin Minister was given important instru
Recently, "Five Problems of Agricultural Projects to Aid Africa and Policy & Recommendation" written by Professor Jiang Heping of modern agriculture Research room in our Institute and postdoctoral Zhan Lin (originally published in the internal Journal "Judgment and Reflections" of the fourth periodical in 2015 editted by Agricultural Economics and Policy Advisory Group of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) was given important instructions by number of leaders such as Gao Hucheng, Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, Vice Minister Qian Keming and Zhang Xiangchen, deputy representative of international trade negotiation, the Ministry of Commerce. Professor Jiang Heping was also invited to attend reform discussion meeting of Agricultural demonstration center for Aiding Africa held by the Ministry of Commerce on August 21 and made a detailed presentation.
The article "Five Problems of Agricultural Projects to Aid Africa and Policy & Recommendation" pointed out the five outstanding problems current existed in the work of aiding Africa: First, farm machinery for aiding Africa can not meet the needs of local production; second, training in agricultural technology has not yet reached the desired effect; Third, the country selection of agricultural technology demonstration center is not rational; fourth, implementation unit of aiding Africa demonstration center failed to compete the mission; fifth, difficulties met by aiding Africa demonstration center for sustainable operational development. For the existence of these problems, it proposed five policy recommendations such as the need to accelerate the improvement of maintenance support services for farm machinery and tractor of aiding Africa, improveing agricultural technical training mode of aiding Africa, carrying out agricultural technical cooperation as per local conditions, supporting large-scale enterprises as main body of the demonstration center and establishing selection and exit mechanisms for agricultural technology demonstration centers of aiding Africa.
The policy recommendations in the article provided important reference and programs for the Ministry of Commerce to carry out reform work in aiding Africa agricultural demonstration center, and were highly appreciated and assessed by leaders of Department of foreign aid in the Ministry of Commerce. Professor Jiang Heping's views were considered to have important reference value on the reform development of future aiding Africa agricultural demonstration center.