Niu Dun meets with Joni Schwartz, Minister of agriculture of Botswana

Introduction: at the invitation of the Ministry of agriculture of China, Joni Schwartz, Minister of agriculture of Botswana, visited China on 22 - 27 August, and inspects the situation of China's agricultural development and discusses the agricultural cooperation between the two countries On August 23rd, Niu Dun, Vice Minister of agriculture, met with Botswana agriculture minister Joni Schwartz and his delegation in Beijing The two sides exchanged views on strengthening agricultural exchanges and cooperation between the two countries Niu Dun said at the talks that since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1975, the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries have been developing steadily In terms of agricultural cooperation, although there are not many exchanges between the two sides and they started late, they have the potential to communicate with each other and expand cooperation It is hoped that the two sides will take this meeting as an opportunity to make joint efforts to promote the further development of bilateral agricultural cooperative relations The development of animal husbandry in Botswana is very distinctive It is known as "the kingdom of cattle" It has very successful experience and technology in raising beef cattle, and beef products also have strong competitiveness in the international market The two sides agreed that the two countries should first carry out exchanges in the field of agriculture from two aspects: first, strengthen exchanges and exchanges between agricultural management and technical personnel of the two countries, enhance direct exchanges between agricultural management and technical personnel of the two sides, enhance mutual understanding, and carry out exchanges of technology and experience in areas of interest to the two sides through field visits Second, carry out technical exchanges in animal husbandry, especially in beef cattle breeding, so as to promote the common development of cattle industry in the two countries Leaders from the international cooperation department, the planting management department, the township enterprise bureau and the animal husbandry department of the Ministry of Agriculture attended the talks The Minister of agriculture of Botswana will also visit Shaanxi and Hebei to inspect animal husbandry, gardening and leather processing industry.