A Single Peanut Bridges Cooperation

Shandong Runbo Agriculture Creates a New Benchmark for China-Pakistan Agricultural Win-Win Cooperation

I. Case Introduction

As a benchmark enterprise for agricultural "going global" in Weifang National Agricultural Comprehensive Development Zone, Shandong Runbo Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. has deeply integrated into the "Belt and Road" initiative and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor construction with its independently developed high-oleic acid peanut varieties as the core carrier. By establishing an integrated peanut breeding, propagation and promotion base in Pakistan, exporting high-quality seeds, advanced technologies and scientific management models, it has achieved a breakthrough in doubling local peanut yield and improving quality. Meanwhile, it has built a cooperative closed-loop of "variety cultivation-large-scale planting-two-way trade", not only becoming a model for China-Pakistan agricultural technology cooperation, but also expanding into multiple cooperative fields such as potato tissue culture and cotton breeding, setting a new benchmark for agricultural capacity integration between the two countries.

II. Detailed Case Introduction

Shandong Runbo Agriculture is a national high-tech enterprise and a director unit of the Peanut Professional Committee of China Green Food Association. Relying on the scientific research advantages of Weifang Key Laboratory of High Oleic Acid Peanut Breeding, it has long been engaged in the breeding and promotion of peanuts and other crops, and has developed multiple high-quality varieties with independent intellectual property rights. Since 2016, with the help of the open platform of Weifang National Agricultural Comprehensive Development Zone, the enterprise has started to explore agricultural cooperation with Pakistan and became a candidate enterprise for agricultural projects in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor in 2022.

After years of variety adaptation cultivation and experiments, 13 new high-oleic acid peanut varieties of Runbo Agriculture, such as Runhua 12, Runhua 17 and Runhua 19, have successfully passed the approval for trial planting by the Pakistani Ministry of Agriculture. These varieties have shown strong regional adaptability. In 2023, in the 1,000-mu experimental fields in Attock and Jhelum of Punjab Province, the average yield per mu reached 450 jin, doubling the yield of local traditional varieties, with some plots even exceeding 500 jin per mu, and the quality advantage of high oleic acid content is significant.

The project is not a single variety export, but has built a full-chain cooperation system: covering technical guidance from improved variety cultivation, field management to post-harvest processing. Meanwhile, relying on the "Weifang China-Pakistan Agricultural Cooperation Center" platform, it has promoted cooperation to extend into multiple fields. At present, 3 projects including potato tissue culture and cotton breeding promotion have been included in the memorandum of the third meeting of the China-Pakistan Agricultural Joint Working Group. In June 2024, the enterprise was invited to participate in the China-Pakistan Business Forum and reached new consensus with Pakistan on base expansion and tissue culture projects, further deepening the cooperation dimension.

III. Implementation Locations

IV. Brief Description of Implementation Effects

V. Cooperation Methods and Solutions

Adopting a Multidimensional Cooperation Model of "Technology + Capital + Platform"

VI. Technical Support and Training Services

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