Closer economic relations with our growing trading partner China, has now grown to sharing our land based research between the two countries.
Lincoln University has signed a deal between two Chinese Universities to share land based research.
The areas they have expressed an interest in below, show they are committed to clean up their enviroment, as much as NZ farmers are.
Chinese involvement with dairy processing, maybe dairy farms, shareholding in PGGW, and now research, indicates how our trading partners have changed in the last few years.
New forward steps have been taken at Lincoln University contributing to the mutually beneficial relationship emerging between NZ and China since the Free Trade Agreement and other recent initiatives. Closer links between NZ and China have the support of both governments and against this background the head of China’s top rank Zhejiang University has visited NZ's specialist land-based university, Lincoln University.
Professor Yang, on his first visit to New Zealand, spent a day at Lincoln University meeting senior staff and seeing at first hand examples of the University’s research work. The Professor’s call followed Professor Field’s visit to Zhejiang University in June when a tripartite agreement was signed between Lincoln, Zhejiang, and a university with which Zhejiang has close associations, Guizhou.
“Three initial possibilities for collaboration between Zhejiang University and Lincoln University have been identified during my visit,” said Professor Yang.“Number one is in the area of nitrification inhibitors for use in dairy farming. Guizhou province will soon have one of China’s largest dairy developments and we want to keep it eco-friendly and clean.
Number two is research on the tenderisation of beef and lamb. The work Lincoln University is doing on meat tenderisation using a solution based on kiwifruit juice is also very interesting. Kiwifruit are abundant in Guizhou. “Thirdly, we can see good opportunities for collaboration in bio-security work, such as dealing with the problem of insect invasions.”
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