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 Prof.
Lin Bao, Soils and Fertilizers Institute, Chinese Academy
of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China, has worked over the
past 35 yearson research and technology transfer in the areas of
soil fertility, plant nutrition and balanced fertilization. He has
led the China National Network on Evaluation of Chemical Fertilizer
Use (CNNECFU), the results of which have provided a scientific basis
for China to guide the production, importation, distribution and
application of mineral fertilizers.
Dr. Lin Bao was the first in China, in the late 1970s,
to start a large number of long-term field trials on soil fertility
and the study of fertilizers. In 1980, he pointed out that
fertilizer use in China was not balanced, and that this was an
important limiting factor for agricultural production. He organized
nationwide research on the rational use, proper rates and ratios of
nitrogen, phosphate and potash fertilizers. From his long-term field
studies, balanced fertilizer techniques for high efficiency cropping
systems have been developed, including the use of both organic and
mineral fertilizers to improve soil fertility. In 1988, he chaired
the organizing committee for the International Symposium on Balanced
Fertilization, which is considered to be a milestone in balanced
fertilization in China.
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