One Belt and Road Make Opportunity To Agricultural Cooperation

For decades, the world has made significant progress in reducing hunger, but there are still 795 million people in the world who endure long-term hunger. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) study shows that  the world will need to increase food production by 60% to supply about 9 billion people worldwide by 2025.
"Sub-Saharan Africa will have to significantly increase food production in the next 10 years to feed the new population, which is a huge challenge for African farmers, and farmers in the African region have felt the impact of climate change, which has suffered severe drought "For a long time, farmers in African countries have been producing 8 tonnes of grain per hectare," said Frederick Shaw, the chairman of the UN Economic and Social Council and the Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe to the United Nations, in an interview with this reporter. Efforts, and China's food production has reached 15 to 16 tons per hectare, in this regard African countries need to learn from China's experience and technology to improve food production and quality. 'One way' initiative to expand non-agricultural cooperation provided Opportunity.
In Shawaw's view, the biggest obstacle to agricultural development in Africa is the lack of a corresponding infrastructure. But the two things that have happened recently have given hope: one is the completion of the Yaji Railway from Djibouti to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, and the other from Montsa, Kenya, to the capital of Nairobi, Through use.
Shaw believes that the opening of these two railways will greatly shorten the transport distance and time, reduce transportation costs, is conducive to African agricultural products to the world. Not only that, China and southern African countries in the infrastructure cooperation is also in progress, from South Africa Durban to Zimbabwe's railway will be connected with the new Tanzania-railways, landlocked countries in southern Africa has added a sea, these very Important infrastructure construction has greatly contributed to the development of Africa's economy, for many African countries to participate in "one by one" road construction possible, but also to allow more African countries to see hope.

Shaw said that 70 per cent of Africa's population is engaged in agriculture, and that African commodities are mostly primary commodities such as agricultural products and minerals, and that the level of technology in the processing of primary products is urgently needed in Africa, which is urgently needed by African farmers. "By developing processing and manufacturing, increasing the added value of primary products, African countries can not only export rich fruit and livestock products, but also export more fruit juice and meat products."
Shaw said China is a big market with a population of more than 1.3 billion, and China and African countries have great potential for cooperation in agricultural technology and agricultural trade. "Cooperation between the two sides in the agricultural sector is an important part of the implementation of the 'one way' initiative."
"Agriculture is the fundamental, lifeblood, only the protection of modern agricultural production, human beings can continue to survive and develop in the 'area along the way' framework, the international agricultural cooperation promising." Shawai laments.