Website:  http://gzsyz.catas.cn/

1. Overview

Established in 1958, the Guangzhou Experimental Station (GES) of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences is an agricultural research institution with full national budgetary support. It was formerly known as the Guangzhou Office of Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, and changed to its present name in 2002. The station has 30 staff members, including 7 senior scientists, 7 of whom are PhD holders, and 6 of whom Master degree holders.

In recent years, with stable annual research funding of RMB 1 million, the station has undertaken a number of ministerial and provincial research projects, including the Comprehensive Experimental Station of the National Modern Agricultural Technology System (Cassava), the Standardized Production Demonstration Garden for Tropical Crops (Cassava) of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Standardized Production Demonstration Garden for Tropical Crops (Beautiful Millettia Root) of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Crop Pest and Rodent Monitoring and Prevention of the Ministry of Agriculture, as well as projects supported by the Hainan Natural Science Foundation. It has also established a number of pilot demonstration bases for new tropical crop varieties and technologies in Guangdong, and provided training for more than 5,000 grassroot-level agricultural technicians.

During the “12th Five Year Plan” period, GES will focus on the construction of the Tropical Energy Ecology Research Center, CATAS, the Jiangmen Comprehensive Experimental Station for Tropical and South Subtropical Agriculture, CATAS, and other scientific and technological innovation platforms and agencies. GES will perform basic and applied research on energy plants and ecological and environmental protection in tropical and subtropical regions, carry out experiments and demonstrations of scientific and technological achievements in tropical and subtropical agriculture and provide related technology training and consultation, and conduct international cooperation and exchange in the field of tropical energy ecology research. With the development of scientific research, the station will promote energy, ecology and scientific research transformation based in Jiangmen to create a public platform according to the medium- and long-term development plans and strategic development goals of CATAS.

2. Contact Information

  Research Office Tel: + 86-20-81704646

                   Fax: +86-20 -81835151;

                   E-mail: gzsyzkb@126.com;

           Address: 241 Kangwang Middle Rd, Liwan District, Guangzhou 510140, P. R. China

3. Research Areas

The station has established three functional research labs: Energy Crop and Ecology Research Lab, Urban Landscape Research Lab and Tropical Agricultural Technology Integration and Application Research Lab. Their responsibilities and functions are to carry out research on energy crops and the ecological environment, the efficient cultivation of tropical energy crops, cold-resistant variety breeding and waste disposal and comprehensive utilization, to promote the development of green, low-carbon, eco-city models based on its Huadu Base, to undertake urban landscape planning and construction; to carry out research on innovative use of edible, medicinal, and ornamental plants, and to provide personnel training in urban landscape and horticultural research.

4. Major Achievements

The station has successfully applied for funds for more than twenty projects, including one special project on modern agricultural technology systems (Comprehensive Experimental Station for Cassava), projects supported by the Hainan Natural Science Foundation, agricultural extension projects, and projects supported by regular research funds for central non-profit research institutes. GES has so far published more than forty papers and has one appearance patent granted.

It has two research platforms, that is, the Tropical Energy Ecology Research Center and the Comprehensive Experimental Station for Tropical and South Subtropical Agriculture. A 138 m2 space has been added for scientific research and four greenhouses well equipped have been constructed in the Cangcheng Base in Jiangmen. Moreover, fifteen counties have been selected in northern, western and eastern Guangdong for pilot demonstration of new cassava varieties and technologies, with a total pilot demonstration area of nearly 400 ha.

           Innovative use of ornamental plants anthurium and edible plant okra