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Key Field Observation and Experiment Station on Agricultural Resources and Ecological Environment in Dezhou

IARRP | Updated: 2021-07-17

The Key Field Observation and Experiment Station on Agricultural Resources and Ecological Environment in Dezhou of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China (formerly known as the Ministry of Agriculture of China) was established in 1966 in Shandong province. It was selected as one of the first group of key field stations by the Ministry of Agriculture in 2005, and one of the first comprehensive agricultural field stations established in the Huanghuaihai area of China.

The station focuses its research on new fertilizers, high yield and high efficiency, and green production, and has established three characteristic research disciplines: soil fertilization and improvement, new-type fertilizers and scientific fertilization, and crop greening and high-yield technology.

It carries out saline-alkali soil fertility and soil moisture and salt content monitoring, and conducts research on salinity barrier soil improvement and biological utilization technology, creation and industrialization of green and efficient value-added fertilizer and the technologies of cultivated land quality improvement and conservation tillage.

The station has large field experiment monitoring facilities, including an agrometeorology and farmland ecological automatic detection system, an atmospheric dry and wet deposition monitoring system, a greenhouse gas flux online monitoring system, a soil water and heat, solute’s combined transport observation system, and a nutrient leakage pond. It has three long-term positioning experiment groups for fertilizers, organic fertilizers, and organic-inorganic combined fertilization, as well as 12 long-term positioning experiment platforms for high-yield optimized cultivation of crops, straw return and conservation tillage and green and high-yield production of wheat in winter and maize in summer. One of the station’s experiments has been running for over 30 years and nine for  more than 10 years.