Tropical agriculture industry to flourish

"As a step taken to upgrade the province's agriculture structure, we have prepared a large number of projects for investors to consider at the 2017 Hainan Comprehensive Investment Fair to be held next week in Haikou. The sectors include planting, aquaculture, processing, leisure farming and e-commerce for farm products," said Zhou.

Hainan is striving to introduce more social funds from home and abroad to promote integration across the agricultural industry, enhance its international competitiveness and help build a beautiful new Hainan.

"As the country is entering a new period of promoting agricultural supply-side structural reform, Hainan has a promising future and investors have huge opportunities for business success," said Zhou.

Natural conditions and development efforts in recent years have laid a solid foundation for Hainan's further development, according to officials. Over the past five years, the agricultural industry's added-value growth has remained higher than 5 percent annually, according to official statistics.

Officials from the provincial agricultural authorities said Hainan is busy building a number of new production bases to boost the quality and efficiency of farming products.

The National Tropical Modern Agricultural Base is driving this change. The organization includes a national winter vegetable base, a tropical fruit base, a winter crop breeding and reproduction base, a tropical plants base, an ocean fishing base and an animal disease-free zone.

(China Daily 06/23/2017 page18)