The National Forestry and Grassland Hazelnut Engineering and Technology Research Center recently held a seminar on “Hazelnut Scientific Research and Industrial Development under the View of Big Food” in Beijing, discussing how hazelnut scientific research and industrial development can better serve national strategies and major needs such as the “Three Norths” campaign, collective forest reform, rural revitalization, and the need for food from forests. The seminar discussed how the hazelnut research and industry development could better serve the national strategies and major demands such as the “Three Norths”, collective forest reform, rural revitalization and food to forest.

The meeting proposed that the Hazelnut Center should strengthen the organization and management, actively cooperate with the industry policy, take the project as the support, produce more results, produce good results, and write the papers on the ground; give full play to the role of demonstration and drive in the field of hazelnut industry, and strengthen the international exchanges, and hold the 11th International Hazelnut Congress in 2025.

Experts were invited to make reports on “Development of Rural Characteristic Advantageous Industries: Consolidating the Achievements of Poverty Eradication and Promoting Comprehensive Revitalization of Rural Areas” and “The Role and Practice of Forest ‘Food Bank’ in the View of Big Food”. 14 hazelnut experts made reports. Fourteen hazelnut experts made full exchanges and discussions on hazelnut to help build a diversified food supply system, hazelnut engineering center science and technology to support the development of hazelnut industry, hazelnut traditional culture, hazelnut scientific research and industrial progress of each unit.

At the meeting, the original hazelnut, fried hazelnut, hazelnut oil, hazelnut coffee, hazelnut milk, hazelnut beans, hazelnut pancakes, hazelnut chocolate, hazelnut non-heritage openers and other products were displayed. Delegates also visited the national key research and development program sub-topic “hazelnut high-quality and high-yield new varieties creation and precision cultivation technology” hazelnut plant germplasm resources preservation nursery, the national key research and development program topic “hazelnut industry key technology research and development and new product creation” hazelnut cultivation demonstration base and the Chinese key research and development program topic “hazelnut industry key technology development and new product creation” hazelnut cultivation demonstration base. Cultivation Demonstration Base and the Hazelnut Science and Technology Group Cultivation Center, which was established on the basis of the achievements of the group cultivation technology of the Forestry Institute of the Chinese Academy of Forestry.