On Jan. 16, Sinofert and Department of Crop Farming Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) signed “Memorandum on Jointly Promoting Scientific Fertilization”. The two parties will conduct comprehensive cooperation with regards to setting and releasing fertilizer formula, production and supply of formula fertilizer, connecting the production and demand of formula fertilizer, promoting and training on scientific fertilization and providing guidance to farmers on fertilization.

Yu Xinrong, Deputy Minister of MOA, Liu Deshu, Sinochem President, and Zhang Xuegong, Assistant Vice President of Sinochem and General Manager of China National Seed Group Co. Ltd, were present at the signing ceremony of the memorandum. Feng Zhibin, CEO of Sinofert and Zeng Yande, Director of Department of Crop Farming Administration of MOA signed on the cooperation memorandum on behalf of the two parties.

The cooperation is aimed at enhancing cooperation between MOA and the enterprises, exploring effective ways of bringing formula fertilization to the rural households, building up long term effective mechanism of scientific fertilization, promoting yield increase and efficiency growth of agricultural production, reducing farmers’ cost and increasing their income, upgrading and transforming fertilizer companies, and providing strong support to ensuring food security, food safety and ecological safety of agriculture.

According to the memorandum, in 2014 in the advantageous regions of grains, vegetable and cash crops, a large number of major counties will be selected to become the demonstration counties of jointly promoting formula fertilization between MOA and the enterprises. The cooperation between MOA and Sinochem this time will further promote the work in this regard, which will lead other fertilizer companies to participate in scientific fertilization.