The Yunnan Research Bureau and the Yunnan Nongken Group have joined with Plant & Food Research, part of the Crown Research Institute in New Zealand, in Kunming on March 26th, 2019, to sign a three-way cooperation agreement.

The three parties will cooperate in the following fields: to establish a modern apple supply chain from seedling to fruit; to expand from apple plantation into blueberries and vegetables; and to develop close cooperation in the recruitment and training of talent, research, production, processing, and commercialization.

New Zealand is one of the few developed countries that relies on the agricultural industry. The Plant & Food Research is a research organization specialized in agricultural research. Their main focus is to create added-value for fruit, vegetables, farm crops, and related food products.

After the signing ceremony, the three parties entered into informal discussion on the creation of an integrated research and retail service platform for the agricultural industry in Yunnan and New Zealand.