Henan Agricultural University

The university consists of 10 departments, including Agricultural, Engineering, Management, Economics, Laws, Science, Arts, Education, Medical Science, Musical Art etc. equipped with 20 colleges. The University has level 1st, level 2nd and national key discipline, thirty-four provincial key disciplines, six postdoctoral research bachelors, five level 1st Ph.D degree authorization subjects, twenty-eight ph.D points, eighteen level 1st master's degree authorization subjects, seventy-three master's degree programs, and fifty-four degree courses. A national wheat engineering technology research center, national corn improvement (zhengzhou) branch, the national tobacco cultivation physiological and biochemical research base on 24 national and provincial research center and the key laboratory. Strong teacher group of our school, more than 1700 teaching staffs currently, including eleven double-hired academician, more than 400 professors and associate professors, three 1st and 2nd level experts of national “key talent project”, the experts obtain ‘Chinese agriculture talent award’, four national outstanding contribution young and middle-age experts, thirty-four people has special allowance from the state council of china, two national key teachers, eleven provincial class doctors, thirty-four province administrating outstanding experts, seven provincial innovative talents, twenty-nine provincial academic technology leaders, sixty-eight provincial key teachers. In January 2017, Henan Agricultural University and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT, Texcoco, Mexico) signed a long-term collaborative agreement which will expand on the knowledge and capacities of each institution by setting up shared research programs in these important row crops.[6] Scientists from CIMMYT and the university will collaborate and publish in a new state-of-the-art research center, benefitting both the world of agricultural research as well as the smallholder farmer in wheat and maize growing regions around the world. Henan Province produces over 6 million hectares of wheat and over 3 million hectares of maize, equating to more than 25% of China's wheat production and 10% of its maize. The CIMMYT collaboration will focus on scientist training and research as well as technological innovation in the plant sciences.