Description:
Development of a masterplan and implementation strategy for an highly sophisticated Agro Park on Dongtan, the east head of Chongming Dao near Shanghai .China. The agropark is set within the constellation of the first ecopolis of China, a major wetland and nature area with grand leisure facilities and the agropark is based on principles of closed cycles in the flows of energy, Co2, nutrients, water and wastes.
The Agropark consists of a demonstration park for China and showcase for the Netherlands, a trading facility for products, facilities and knowledge exchange and functional agricultural production units with as a heart the Central Processing Unit.
It is the planned that a co-operating network of Chinese and Dutch business units consisting of knowledge institutes, entrepreneurs, governmental – and non governmental organizations which are involved in the master planning, will form a consortium of investors that will realise the masterplan before 2010, the year of the worls expo in Shanghai.
The park comprises innovations in food processing, where production is part of the demonstration. It will show Dutch quality standards in foodproduction and processing and will offer virtual connection to other agrofood innovation centres around the world. The Buildings are set in a semi-permanent outline that is continously changing and being innovated. The agro trade park consists of 2 components , a market place for buying and selling products and services and a business centre.The agro production park will contain three types of production:
- Land dependant agriculture: this is high standard intensive agriculture wwith semi closed dairy farming, open air vegetables production, open air bulbs and flowers, tree and urban green ornamental plants production and energy crops
- Industrial agriculture with high standard intensive agriculture, closed systems with climate control ; Green houses producing vegetables, pot plants and flowers and intensive protein production: freshwater products, mushrooms pigs, poultry, as well as animal breeding, tissue culture, seedlings etc.
- Processing of agro-products with high standard industrial processing from agro production park and imported products and of processing of selected wastes and by-products from Greenport Shanghai and surrounding areas
The whole park will be based on carefully arranged planning principles along gradients, where integrated watermanagement, ecological principlals of connection , landscaping and realisation of open space form the basis on which a flexible, modular high tech agropark can function.
Agroparks in China
Wageningen UR Agroparks currently is active in several emerging countries, including China, India,Thailand and Vietnam. An example of a agropark in China is Greenport Shanghai.
Partner(s):
Shanghai Industrial Investment cooperation (SIIC), Wageningen UR (Alterra, A&F, PRI), Knowhouse, Dutch (regional) governements, dutch entrepreneurs, TransForum Agro &Groen,
Jiaotong University, Nanjing Agricultural University.
Timespan:
2006 - 2011
Funding:
Transforum, SIIC, Dutch companies, Alterra