The late agronomist Yuan Longping, known as the "father of hybrid rice," set a target to develop 6.67 million hectares of saline-alkali tolerant rice within one to 10 years so as to feed 100 million more people, making new contributions to food security in China and even the world, said Zhao Bingran, a professor at the China National Rice R&D Center, at a food security sub-forum.

Ye first learned planting techniques from an agronomist at Nestle.

Ye said she still checks with Nestle agronomists for help with coffee tree diseases and pests.

Originally from the southwest of France, Malbec was introduced in Argentina by French agronomist Michel A. Pouget in 1853.

Huang Hualin, a senior agronomist of the Tea Research Institute at Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Science, was assigned to Tibet two years ago, along with the ninth batch of partner-assistance teams between the two regions.

To make its wines biodynamic, the company plants cow horns filled with manure among the grapevines, to "transmit fertility" to the earth and plants, in keeping with the recommendations of agronomists, said Yaksic.

As the famous agronomist, Nobel Peace Prize winner and "father of the green revolution" Normal Borlaug said, "Everything else can wait; agriculture can't.

To this end, application of cutting-edge technologies and equipment will help solve the problem effectively," said Han Peifeng, a senior agronomist with Linying bureau of agriculture and rural affairs.

China's technique of growing Juncao, the herbal plant used in the growing of edible mushrooms, has contributed to global poverty reduction, agronomist Lin Zhanxi said at the Delegates' Passage before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Sunday.

Twenty years ago, villagers in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea began to learn the localization of this modern biological technology with the help of Chinese agronomists.