The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS; Chinese: 中国农业科学院) is the Chinese national agricultural scientific research organization.
It was established in 1957 in Beijing and oversees 45 institutes. Thirty-six are direct affiliates, nine institutes are co-hosted together with local governments or universities. It has more than 5,000 professional employees.
The Academy building contains offices of several Chinese policy institutions such as the China Association for the Promotion of International Agricultural Cooperation (CAPIAC, 中国农业国际合作促进会) established in 1998. One of CAPIAC's branches is the International Cooperation Committee for Animal Welfare (ICCAW), established in 2011. In 2017, ICCAW hosted a farm animal welfare conference together with UN Food and Agriculture Organization, RSPCA, Compassion in World Farming, the U.S. Meat Export Federation and the U.S. National Pork Board.
In 2023, CAAS and Tencent announced a partnership to establish a Digital Seed Bank at the Tencent Science and Technology Museum. The Digital Seed Bank includes digital displays of germplasm resources preserved at the National Crop Genebank of China, along with seed-storage and breeding technologies.
List of institutes
Beijing branch
Crop Sciences Institute
Plant Protection Institute
Vegetable and Flower Research Institute
Institute of Agricultural Environment and Sustainable Development
Beijing Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine
Bee Research Institute
Feed Research Institute
Agricultural Products Processing Research Institute
Institute of Biotechnology
Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development
Institute of Agricultural Resources and Agricultural Regional Planning
Agricultural Information Research Institute
Institute of Agricultural Quality Standards and Testing Technology
Institute of Food and Nutrition Development, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
China Agricultural Science and Technology Press
Outside of Beijing
Farmland Irrigation Research Institute
Rice Research Institute
Cotton Research Institute
Oil Crops Research Institute
Hemp Research Institute
Fruit Research Institute
Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute
Tea Research Institute
Harbin Veterinary Research Institute
Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute
Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute
Grassland Research Institute
Specialty Research Institute
Environmental Protection Research and Monitoring Institute
Biogas Science Institute
Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization
Tobacco Research Institute
Shenzhen Agricultural Genome Research Institute
Urban Agriculture Research Institute
Co-hosted institutes
Citrus Research Institute
Beet Research Institute
Sericulture Research Institute
China Agricultural Heritage Research Office
Buffalo Institute
Grassland Ecological Research Institute
Poultry Research Institute
Sweet Potato Research Institute