Time

Presenter

8.30

Opening

8.30

Prof. Qijun Ma,

Welcome speech

Overview of agricultural research of CARR/CAS

Dr. Bronwyn Harch

Remark from CSIRO

Bronwyn Harch & Graham Bonnett

CSIRO research in sustainable agriculture – an overview

9.30

Presentations

9.30

Chunsheng Hu

Nitrogen flux and its manipulation in the wheat-corn double cropping systems in the North China Plain

10.00

Enli Wang

Combining measurement and modeling to help design eco-efficient agricultural systems - opportunities for joint CAS-CSIRO research

10.30

Group Photo and Break

10.50

Wenzhi Zhao

Practice of water-saving agricultural resources in arid area in Northwestern China

11.20

Zvi Hochman

“Assessing yield gaps: how much more grain can Australian farmers produce with current technology?”

11.50

Yanjun Shen

Quantifying water and heat fluxes and the implications to food productivity in NCP: from field to regional scales

12.20

Lunch（Room: 305; 3F）

14.00

James Hunt

Using farming systems to increase water-use efficiency in dry-land wheat production

14.30

Xiying Zhang

Managing limited irrigation for maximizing grain production in the North China Plain

15.00

Allan Peake

Improving wheat yield and resource use efficiency in irrigated spring wheat

15.30

TeaBreak

15.45

Wen Zhang

Estimation and the uncertainty in modeling soil organic carbon changes in China’s

16.15

Paul Harvey

“Managing microbiological processes to overcome soil-borne constraints to dryland cropping”

16.45

Wenxue Wei

Microbial mechanisms of soil nitrogen cycling

17.15

Bronwyn Harch

Summary of key points, gaps, opportunities and linkages coming out of the days presentations