InPics | China-Africa agricultural cooperation bears rich fruits

A Chinese specialist (L) demonstrates a self-driving tractor with the application of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) during a test run at an agricultural engineering school in northwestern Tunisia, March 10, 2019. (Xinhua)

BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- China and Africa have continued to deepen practical cooperation in agriculture within the frameworks of the Belt and Road cooperation and the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which in turn is bearing rich fruits in recent years. China further announced in August this year a plan to support Africa's agricultural modernization, and comprehensively drive for more practical bilateral cooperation in agriculture within the FOCAC framework.

This photo taken on Nov. 19, 2019 shows participants of a training course for cassava production and processing and tropical fruit tree planting technology at a China-aid agricultural technology demonstration center near Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo. Since the establishment of the demonstration center in 2007, many Chinese experts have been stationed here to carry out agricultural planting and poultry breeding demonstrations. (Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences via Xinhua)

An associate professor from Egypt participates in the training of cassava breeding technology at a field of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences in Haikou, in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)

Hu Yuefang (4th L), a Chinese hybrid rice expert, works with local farmers in a field in Mahitsy, Madagascar, on May 12, 2023. Since 2007, Madagascar has been cooperating with China on hybrid rice technology. (Xinhua/Sitraka Rajaonarison)

This photo taken on Oct. 23, 2023 shows pineapples for sale at a fruit stand in Ze, a major pineapple-producing area of Benin. (Photo by Seraphin Zounyekpe/Xinhua)

An agriculture drone sprays pesticides at a Chinese-run rice farm in Lukaya, Kalungu District in Uganda, June 2, 2021. (Xinhua/Zhang Gaiping)

Students and their teacher attend a practical lesson in a tractor workshop at Yabassi Technical and Professional Agricultural High School in Yabassi, Cameroon, Jan. 12, 2023. This school is the first agricultural technical school in Cameroon. The school, built with Chinese aid, was completed and handed over in 2016. (Photo by Kepseu/Xinhua)

Staff members test wild anchovy products from Kenya in a lab of Jinzai Food Group Company Limited in Yueyang, central China's Hunan Province, June 28, 2023. The first batch of wild anchovy products from Kenya made its debut at the third edition of the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in June 2023, marking a new step in China's efforts in promoting the import of more high-quality African food and agricultural products, enriching the choices of domestic consumers, and boosting the trade between China and Africa. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)

An exhibitor presents Ethiopian coffee during the third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo at the Changsha International Convention and Exhibition Center in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, June 29, 2023. (Xinhua/Sun Ruibo)

Farmers celebrate their harvest at the Wanbao Mozambique rice farm in Xai Xai, southern Mozambique, April 7, 2019. (Xinhua/Zhang Yu)

Chinese agriculture expert Chen Taihua (L) talks to Godfrey Kityo, a fish breeding technician, at the Aquaculture Research and Development Centre in Kajjansi, Wakiso District, Uganda, Dec. 21, 2022. (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/Xinhua)

Liu Gaoqiong (2nd L), a Chinese professor of agriculture, instructs students on tomato planting at a greenhouse in Nakuru County, Kenya, Sept. 18, 2023.

Farmers thresh hybrid rice in Kihanga, Bubanza Province, Burundi, June 20, 2023. (Xinhua/Han Xu)

A Chinese expert instructs a local farmer to plant peppers in Caldeiras Village of Sao Tome Island, Sao Tome and Principe, July 15, 2023. In 2021, Caldeiras Village was designated the first demonstration village for agricultural poverty alleviation. Altogether 79 families in the village have received well-directed technical aid from China. (Xinhua/Han Xu)

A workshop owner checks fungus at his edible fungus cultivation workshop in Kigali, Rwanda, Sept. 9, 2020. Chinese experts came to Rwanda to start technical cooperation on fungus cultivation in 2006. (Photo by Cyril Ndegeya/Xinhua)

Legume crop expert Liu Yunmin (1st R) communicates with local farmers at a demonstration orchard of agricultural technical assistance, in Asmara, Eritrea, Sept. 27, 2023. (Xinhua/Han Xu)