PARIS, France — According to an Comunicado de prensa de la IFA, Dr. Jiyun Jin del Instituto de Suelos y Fertilizantes de la Academia China de Ciencias Agrícolas (CAAS) has won the the 2010 IFA Norman Borlaug Award for excellence in crop nutrition knowledge transfer for his work to improve soil fertility and fertilizer management practices. His work, which has influenced more than 400 million farmers, has been widely disseminated through field demonstrations, farmers’ meetings, field inspection activities, brochures, leaflets, videos, TV, radio, posters and web sites, as well as via a television series on soil fertility management he developed, which was distributed through the China Central Agricultural Broadcasting School and CCTV agricultural channel.
Jin, quien actualmente es profesor CAAS de Nutrición y Fertilización Vegetal, Presidente de la Sociedad China de Ciencias de la Nutrición Vegetal y los Fertilizantes, y Director del Programa de China de la Instituto Internacional de Nutrición Vegetal, has spent the last 25 years working on ways to improve soil, increase crop productivity and raise farmers’ incomes in China. Jin has developed knowledge transfer tools to educate farmers on the results of laboratory research, and his group attempts to bridge the knowledge gap between research, extension services and the practices of China’s farmers, who largely cultivate small-sized plots and lack knowledge of good fertilization practices. According to IFA’s press relase, field trials indicate that balanced fertilization technology can increase farmers’ incomes by between $118 to $265/hectare for grain crops, and by between $295 to $2,950/hectare for cash crops.
Algunas de las herramientas que desarrolló para mejorar la eficiencia del uso de fertilizantes y la producción de cultivos son:
- Manejo de nutrientes específico del sitio para granjas de pequeña escala
- Uso de sistemas de información geográfica para una gestión precisa de los nutrientes
- Programas de recomendación de fertilizantes basados en la web