Helping Guangdong litchi upgrade to a "big industry"
Xinkuai News reporter Xu Lifu reported that recently, the 8th China Litchi Longan Industry Conference was held in Maoming. At the conference, the national "Litchi Meteorological Service Center" was officially launched, marking a new stage of litchi meteorological service.
In February this year, the litchi meteorological service center was jointly declared and established by the Guangdong Provincial Meteorological Bureau and the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and was recognized as the third batch of national characteristic agrometeorological service centers by the China Meteorological Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. The center carries out research on key core technologies such as climate suitability evaluation of litchi production, impact assessment of meteorological disasters, climate zoning, yield forecast, pest control, climate quality evaluation, and research and development of meteorological index insurance products, so as to realize data information sharing across multiple departments and provinces and cities. In the first batch of pilot projects for high-quality meteorological modernization in Guangdong, the provincial meteorological bureau selected Maoming as a special pilot project for litchi meteorological support services.
It is reported that the Lichi Meteorological Service Center has established an expert alliance. Next, with the support of Guangdong Meteorological Bureau and Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Maoming will focus on three types of objects, including decision-making departments, production and operation entities and processing logistics transportation enterprises, improve the litchi characteristic agrometeorological observation system and build a litchi meteorological service index system on the basis of gathering the advantageous resources of universities, research institutes and enterprises, Carry out litchi meteorological disaster and pest service guarantee, build a national litchi production - learning - research - use meteorological service comprehensive platform, promote the application and transformation of relevant scientific research achievements, help Guangdong litchi to upgrade from "small specialty" to "large industry", and provide replicable, promotable and referential models and experience for litchi meteorological service nationwide.
