Want to post a news? Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences (JxAAS), originally known as the Jiangxi Academy of Agriculture founded in 1934, is a provincial, comprehensive, and non-profit agricultural research institution directly administered by the People's Government of Jiangxi Province. It has been engaged in agricultural research, training, and extension. JxAAS is engaged in research on rice, edible fungi, tea, vegetables (such as asparagus, pepper, eggplant, and bitter gourd), upland crops (such as potato, sweet potato, yam, and corn), fruits (such as melon, citrus, grape, kiwifruit, and pear), flowers (such as Daphne odora), oil crops (such as oilseed rape, soybean, peanut, and sesame), medicinal plants (such as Eucommia ulmoides), forage plants, animal husbandry and veterinary sciences, soil, fertilizer, environment, plant protection, agricultural machinery, agricultural economics and information, preservation and innovation of gemplasm resources, agro-product processing and grain storage, agro-product quality and safety, etc. JxAAS provides training courses for farmers and technical support for relevant enterprises. It also carries out investigations in the agricultural sector to provide useful advice for the decision making of the Provincial Government. International cooperation is an important part of the work of JxAAS. JxAAS has carried out extensive collaboration and exchanges with relevant organizations around the world. For example, it has set up the Sino-Philippine Joint Laboratory for Rice Technology together with Central Luzon State University (CLSU). It has the Jiangxi International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Rice and Organic Agriculture approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China. Besides, it has held dozens of international training workshops, such as the International Training Workshop on Symbiosis Farming of Rice and Aquatics for Countries along the Belt and Road in 2019 and International Training Workshop on Cultivation Techniques of Fruit Trees for Developing Countries in 2016, both sponsored by the Department of International Cooperation, MOST.