Green technology for increasing grain crop production and efficiency: innovation and application in China
Securing sufficient, sustainable and resilient food production with judiciously using mineral fertilizers, while protecting the eco-environment is essential for agricultural sustainable development worldwide. However, the existing agricultural scientific paradigm fails to align with practical produc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Higher Education Press
2025-09-01
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| Series: | Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.hep.com.cn/fase/EN/PDF/10.15302/J-FASE-2025630 |
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| Summary: | Securing sufficient, sustainable and resilient food production with judiciously using mineral fertilizers, while protecting the eco-environment is essential for agricultural sustainable development worldwide. However, the existing agricultural scientific paradigm fails to align with practical production realities, while confronting dual contradictions: reconciling higher grain yields with lower environmental impacts and balancing agricultural economic growth with environmental conservation imperatives. This paper proposes the next-generation “12345” agricultural research paradigm, rooting research in agricultural development, linking knowledge and action across multistakeholders via cross-discipline systematic research. Green technology for increasing grain crop production and efficiency, as a typical example, is used to implement this new scientific paradigm. The components of this paradigm are giving as comprising three key elements, (1) high-yield population construction, (2) efficient rhizosphere regulation technology and (3) healthy soil cultivation. Next the paper examines green technology versus common farmer practice for thousands of fields across the main agricultural production regions in China, achieving substantially increased crop yields and reduced mineral nitrogen fertilizer inputs, thereby enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and reduced environmental footprints. Green technology is offered as being an effective agricultural scientific paradigm to ensure food and environmental security, providing a new example for worldwide food security in the future. |
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| ISSN: | 2095-7505 |