In October our Zhouzhi facility was formally designated a Yangling Agri-Science Training field classroom by the Yangling Agricultural Science Training Service Centre. The accreditation recognises our breeding plots, seedbeds, demonstration blocks and propagation facilities as a place where growers can be taught on real plants rather than slides.
What the designation covers
Yangling is China’s national agricultural science hub, and the training centre runs practical courses for growers and technicians. Being selected as a field classroom means our site met requirements for breeding material, demonstration plots spanning a full production cycle, and ecological growing practice worth showing.
In practice, visitors work through the chain we actually use: collection and conservation of wild Qinling germplasm, manual cross-pollination, seedling screening, acclimatisation of new selections, and the fertigation regime used in the greenhouse.
Why we took it on
Running training costs time, and we did not take it for the plaque. There are two reasons that pay us back.
First, it keeps our technicians sharp. Teaching a process forces you to write it down and defend it, and gaps surface quickly. Second, and more directly useful to buyers, a technician base that trains others tends to solve problems faster for its own customers. When a grower in Sichuan or Guizhou plants our plants and something goes wrong three months later, we have people who can diagnose it remotely.
For nursery and orchard buyers
Plant suppliers vary enormously in how much support exists after the pallets ship. We provide orchard planning, planting, pruning and pest control guidance with the plants, over the whole cycle, not just at delivery. Varieties and packing options are listed under kiwifruit plants and pollen, or ask a question through the export desk.