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Sino - Swiss Scientific Workshop on Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems in Switzerland

from Juli 14th to 21st, 2002

The prelude to the Chinese-Swiss collaboration was last year's Sino-Swiss-Workshop in Zuhai, China. Participants from the Swiss side include several research institutes that deal with organic farming, integrated production and biotechnology. The Chinese coordinator is the Chinese Ministery of Science and Technology, (MOST).

A 16-person delegation from China visited Switzerland from July 14th - 21st 2002 to learn about agricultural production systems.

Programm

• Welcome from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Berne, by Director Manfred Bötsch, represented by Mr. Thomas Maier, Swiss Federal Office of Agriculture, Berne
• Welcome from the Delegation of China by Prof. Huarong Yao, Director, External Cooperation Division of Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology
• Welcome at FAL
  Dr. Paul Steffen, Director of FAL Zürich-Reckenholz
• Welcome from the Swiss Parliament by Dr. Doris Stump, Deputy to the Swiss Parliament
• Agricultural Research in Switzerland
  Dr. Urs Gantner, Chief of Staff Agricultural Research at the Ministry of Agriculture, Berne
• Implementation of ecological agricultural production systems in Switzerland
  Dr. Padruot M. Fried and Dr. David Dubois, Department Head and Section Head, FAL Zürich-Reckenholz
• The role and duties of the Agricultural Extension Service in Switzerland
  Mr. Erich Waldmeier, Director of LBL, Eschikon
• Bio-Safety Research at the Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture FAL Zürich-Reckenholz ( overhead to the speech)
  Dr. Franz Bigler and Dr. Michael Winzeler, Section Head and Department Head, FAL Zürich-Reckenholz

• Farm Site visit , Dällikon
  Scientific program organised by FIBL
  Visit of Syngenta Crop ProtectionScientific program organised by Syngenta

• Visit of Experimental Station Willisau
  Visit of Swiss College of Agriculture, Zollikofen. Visiting program organised by Experimental Station, speech 1, speech 2
  Visit of Coop, Biel Visiting program organised by Coop

• Visit at Vineyard Dr. P.J. Charmillot , Dezaley, speech 1, speech 2
  Visit of the Federal Agricultural Research Station RAC, of Changins Scientific program organized by RAC spech 1, Poster, speech 2,
  Visit of Nestlé Research Centre, Vers-chez-les Blancs Scientific program organized by Nestlé speech 1, speech 2

• Visit of Médicinal Plant, production systems of medicinal plants and berries, Bruson Scientific program organized by Médicinal Plant, speech 1
  Visit of Médiplant, Centre des Fougères, ContheyScientific program organized by Médiplant, speech 1, speech 2

• Working Session FAL, Reckenholz · Overall discussion · Projects · Collaboration · Follow-up According to special program
  Chinese Proposals

Members of the Sino-Swiss Organization Committee

• Centre for Biosafety and Sustainability (BATS), Basel
• Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture (FAL), Reckenholz
• Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Frick

Sponsored by

• Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF)
• Zentrum für Biosicherheit und Nachhaltigkeit (BATS)
• Euchinus GmbH
• Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (FiBL)
• Bundesamts für Landwirtschaft (BLW)
• Swiss College of Agriculture (SCA)
• Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Agrarökologie und Landbau (FAL)
• Swiss Federal Research Station for Plant Production (RAC)
• Gruppe für Wissenschaft und Forschung (GWF)
• Syngenta AG

We thank the Chinese Embassy in Bern for their advice in the planing of this visit.