AWARDEE OF AGRONOMY PRIZE

LU ZONGFAN

Prof. Lu Zongfan was born in Xi'an city of Shaangxi Province in March 1935. After  graduated from the agricultural department of Northwest Agriculture College in 1957, he has  worked in Institute of Soil and Water Conservation(ISWC), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) and Ministry of Water Resources.  He was appointed  the leader of agriculture research department of ISWC, and the chief of Ansai Comprehensive Research Station of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS. He is also the research professor of ISWC and Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry, and the commissioner of the Agriculture Committee of Chinese Ecosystem Association.
Prof. Lu has engaged in the research on soil and water conservation and agriculture for more than 40 years in the poor region of the Loess Plateau. The main successes he has got are as follows:
1. Assisted with Prof. Zhu, academician of CAS, he put forward the new stratagems on the agricultural developments of the Loess Plateau in 1982, which has played a leading role to the harness of that zone. 
2.He set up and established the Ansai Comprehensive Research Station of Soil and Water Conservation in 1980, and from 1980 on, this station has investigated on agricultural ecosystem for long-term and located researches, as has done a great deal to this station's upgraded to a state field station.
3.He firstly established the comprehensive harness typical model on ecosystem agriculture——ZhiFanggou Small Watershed, which had brought a far-reaching influence on the research domain of soil and water conservation among the whole country.
4.During the long-term practices on agricultural research and production, he has successively developed and put forward  some leading principles and models，such as Three-Kind-Agriculture(which is to change conventional agriculture for self-support farming, commercial livestock husbandry, fruits, and eco-grass-forestry on the Loess Plateau)，the eco-agriculture with soil and water conservation, the crop prohibited in the larger area，the artificial grass forestry permitted partially in the smaller area，which have been widely adopted by the government.