China Green Agriculture Attended the Changchun International Agricultural Expo

China Green Agriculture, Inc. (NYSE: CGA) ("China Green Agriculture", "we" or the "Company"), a company that mainly produces and distributes humic acid-based compound fertilizers, other varieties of compound fertilizers and agricultural products through its subsidiaries in China, today announced that the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Beijing Gufeng Chemical Products Co., Ltd. ("Gufeng"), had attended the 14^th Changchun International Agricultural Expo ( the "Changchun Expo"). The Changchun Expo was held from August 14, 2015 to August 23, 2015 at Changchun Modern Agricultural Demonstration Centre.

Changchun Expo was founded in 2000. It advocates that modernization is the key to speed up agricultural development. It has become the largest international agricultural expo in China, more than 1.7 million participants attended the Expo this year.

During the event, Gufeng showcased our advanced agricultural material and products as well as the Company's online sales platform for basic agricultural materials -- 900nong.com. The online sales platform had attracted interest from the Expo attendees and visitors. It showcased the most recent development direction for traditional agricultural business model.

Mr. Tao Li, chairman and CEO of the Company, stated, "We are excited to have participated in Changchun Expo, and we appreciate the increasing recognition of our business. I firmly believe this is just the beginning, and we look forward to more opportunities as we continue expanding our business operation in the agricultural industry."

About China Green Agriculture, Inc.
The Company produces and distributes humic acid-based compound fertilizers, other varieties of compound fertilizers and agricultural products through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, i.e.: Shaanxi TechTeam Jinong Humic Acid Product Co., Ltd. ("Jinong"), Beijing Gufeng Chemical Products Co., Ltd ("Gufeng") and a variable interest entity, Xi'an Hu County Yuxing Agriculture Technology Development Co., Ltd. ("Yuxing").

Jinong produced and sold 127 different kinds of fertilizer products as of June 30, 2015, all of which are certified by the government of the People's Republic of China (the "PRC") as Green Food Production Materials, as stated by the China Green Food Development Center. Jinong currently markets its fertilizer products to private wholesalers and retailers of agricultural farm products in 27 provinces, four autonomous regions, and three central-government-controlled municipalities in the PRC. Jinong had 1,010 distributors in the PRC as of June 30, 2015. Gufeng, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Beijing Tianjuyuan Fertilizer Co., Ltd., are Beijing-based producers of compound fertilizers, blended fertilizers, organic compound fertilizers, and mixed organic-inorganic compound fertilizers. As of June 30, 2015, Gufeng produced and sold 332 different kinds of fertilizer products, and had 282 distributors in the PRC. For more information, visit http://www.cgagri.com. The Company routinely posts important information on its website.

Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 concerning the Company's business, products and financial results. The Company's actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements depending on a number of risk factors including, but not limited to, the following: general economic, business and environment conditions, development, shipment, market acceptance, additional competition from existing and new competitors, changes in technology, the execution of its ten-year growth plan, the foreign exchange risk amid the unexpected announcement by the PRC government in August 2015 sending the yuan to a 3% devaluation and various other factors beyond the Company's control. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this Safe Harbor Statement and the risk factors detailed in the Company's reports filed with the SEC. China Green Agriculture undertakes no duty to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release, except as required by applicable law or regulations.

For more information, please contact:
China Green Agriculture, Inc.
Mr. Fang Wang (English and Chinese)
Tel: +86-29-88266383
Email: wangfang@cgagri.com

Storing organic manures in nitrate vulnerable zones

Organic manures

Organic manures come from animals, plants or humans. They include:

• slurry
• poultry manures
• solid manures (eg farmyard manure, sludge cake or compost)
• sewage sludge (also called biosoids)
• other liquid manures (eg abattoir waste or anaerobic digestate)

Slurry is a liquid organic manure that is produced by livestock (other than poultry) while in a yard or building. It includes animal bedding and water that drains from areas where animals are kept. 

You must separate slurry into solid and liquid parts using a machine on a waterproof surface where you can collect the liquid that drains from it. If the solid that remains can be stacked in a heap without leaking liquid, it can be treated as farmyard manure. If not, it's still slurry. If there is leakage from a stack, you must collect this and treat it as slurry. 

You must follow this guidance if a part or all of the farm buildings from which your slurry comes is within an NVZ. You must also follow the guidance on the rules for using nitrogen fertilisers in NVZs and storing silage, slurry and agricultural fuel oil. 

Storing slurry and poultry manure

You must be able to store all the slurry you produce and all poultry manure produced in a yard or building, during the storage period, unless you reduce the volume by:

• sending it off your farm
• spreading some of it on fields with a low risk of runoff

The storage period runs from:

• 1 October to 1 April inclusive (6 months) for pigs and poultry
• 1 October to 1 March inclusive (5 months) for cattle, sheep, goats, deer and horses

In addition to storing the slurry you produce, you must provide storage for any slurry, rainfall, washings or other liquid that enters the store during the storage period. 

For rainfall, average figures for each month of the storage period can be used for the storage capacity calculation. Use the Defra PLANET and MANNER NPK nutrient management tools to get rainfall information for your postcode. 

You may need to use a longer average rainfall period for your calculation to make sure you comply with the closed period and non-spreading conditions. For example, 6 and 7 months respectively to cover wetter than average years and spatial rainfall differences within a postcode area (eg height above sea level). 

You may need a greater storage volume if in some years you can't empty the store before the start of the closed period. 

You should allow for:

• all rainfall expected to enter the store during the storage period (rain falling directly into the store and washings from elsewhere, including contaminated yards)
• any water or other liquids that enter the store during the storage period

To find out how much manure your animals will produce, you can use standard values tables (XSLM, 128KB ) or farm software like the MANNER NPK tool. 

Using low risk land

You can spread slurry or poultry manure on fields that have a low risk of runoff, to reduce the amount of storage capacity you need to provide. 

If you do this, you must still comply with the closed period for spreading slurry. 

You'll also need to take account of the limits on spreading slurry or poultry manure from the end of the closed period until the end of February. 

Land with a low risk of runoff:

• has an average slope of less than 3 degrees
• doesn't have land drains (other than a sealed pipe)
• is at least 50 metres from a watercourse or conduit leading to a watercourse (eg a ditch or working land drain)

You must provide storage facilities for an additional 1 week's manure as a contingency measure in case you can't spread on fields with a low risk of runoff on some days.

Storing solid manures

You must store poultry manure, other types of solid organic manure or animal bedding that contains organic manure in one of the following ways:

• in a container
• on a waterproof base, where you can collect and store runoff
• in a roofed building
• in a temporary field heap

Locating and constructing temporary field heaps

You must:

• make sure your field heap is at least 10 metres from any surface water (eg a river, pond or ditch) or land drain, or 30 metres if the land slopes at 12 degrees or more
• make sure the location of the field heap isn't liable to being waterlogged or flooded
• locate field heaps at least 50 metres from a spring well or borehole
• move the field heap at least every 12 months
• leave a 2 year gap before returning to the same site
• keep a record of the sites used for field heaps and the dates of use

You must show all the low risk areas suitable for temporary field heaps on your risk map if you plan to use them.

Temporary field heaps must:

• be made from manure solid enough to be stacked in a freestanding heap
• not give rise to free drainage from within the stacked material
• be covered with a waterproof material if they contain poultry manure without bedding or litter
• occupy as small a surface area as is needed to support the weight of the heap without it collapsing

Constructing or enlarging your storage facilities

If you're constructing new storage for slurry, reconstructing part of a storage facility or enlarging your current storage facilities, you must follow the rules on storing silage, slurry and agricultural fuel oil. 

Keeping storage records

You must record:

• the capacity of the storage facilities on your farm (and update any changes to this within 1 week of the change)
• your calculation of the volume of manure that will be produced by the livestock you'll keep in a building or on hard standing during the storage period
• your calculation showing the amount of storage you need
• any changes in volume and storage capacity due to introducing livestock onto your farm for the first time (within 1 month of the change)
• your calculations to show how you've reduced your volume by sending slurry off your farm or spreading it on low-risk areas (if relevant)

By 30 April each year make a record of:

• the numbers and type ('category' in the standard values tables (XSLM, 128KB ) ) of livestock you kept in buildings or on hard standing during the previous storage period
• the dates for the start and end of use and locations of any field sites you use for storing solid manure

You don't need to record the start and end dates for your use of field sites separately if you record them on your risk map. 

You must keep these records for 5 years.

Contact the Farming Advice Service for more information on using and storing nitrogen fertilizers and manures.

Telephone: 0345 345 1302 (Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm)

Email: advice@farmingadviceservice.org.uk

Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Nigeria FG HARPS ON HUMAN CAPACITY FOR ECONOMIC, AGRIC DEVT...PG.24

FMARD

 The story has it that the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has emphasized the need to develop human capacity in Nigeria to achieve economic growth, noting that the federal government is also determined to establish a sustainable agriculture sector that raises the incomes of the rural population while underpinning the national economy. 

The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Sonny Echono stated this while declaring open a staff training programme on innovative Collaboration for Development (CTA) in Abuja. 

The Permanent Secretary said the ministry seeks through the training to strengthen the staff capacity in developing and maintaining its online presence and relationship with the Nigerian public as well as play on effective role in influencing policy development processes and in supporting the development of effective value chains. 

Source: Thisday Newspaper of 16/9/2015 pg.24

'Ghana Holds Potential For Vegetable Production'

Vegetable Production

The Programme Leader of GhanaVeg, Mr Joep van den Broek, has said the country could become self-sufficient in vegetable production when the public works with the private sector as stakeholders for a year-round irrigated production.

He said it would be a win-win for both sides when the public sector developed infrastructure and attracted the private sector to come in with other logistics and infrastructure within the value chain.

“Ultimately, a lot of opportunities for Ghana lie in irrigated production throughout the country, from the south, the middle belt and the north. The country is nestled around water bodies but with very little irrigation. With irrigation, you can do off-season production and meet local demand and stop the importation of onions, tomatoes and other vegetables.

Speaking to the Daily Graphic at the 9th GhanaVeg Business Platform in Accra, the programme leader said the country had a perfect climate for the production of vegetables such as onions, chillies and tomatoes, and that coupled with the abundance of water, the country had all going for it to become a major player in the production of vegetables.

A Dutch trade mission, comprising leading vegetable sector companies, was in the country to explore market and investment opportunities.

GhanaVeg, which created the platform to bring players in the industry together to touch base on trends and developments, is a four-year strategic response (2014-2017) by the Netherlands to develop a sustainable and internationally competitive vegetable sector in the country to contribute to inclusive economic growth.

It is a bilateral support by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands committed to developing and promoting commercial vegetables sector in the country. Selecting a sector to support was research-based which proved the country’s vast potential.

There are enormous market opportunities across the world for vegetables, with the Netherlands alone holding about 14 billion euros in value. In 2013 for instance, it imported 4.6 billion euros worth of fresh fruits and vegetables from 107 countries and exported 7.1 billion to 150 countries.

Ghana, where the need to consume more vegetable is catching on with the population imports various vegetables from the Netherlands and neighboring countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali and La Cote d’Ivoire.

Mr Broek cited VegPro as a good example of how the government, under the Millennium Challenge Account grant, developed an irrigation project at Kpong at the Left Bank of Akuse Kpong Piped Irrigation Water Supply (KPIWS) Project for VegPro Ghana Limited.

A member of the trade mission, Bejo Seeds, visited a carrot farm at Mampong which produces 10 tons. But the seeds company representatives believed that with their intervention and further linkages with other solutions providers in the Netherlands, the company should be able to easily scale up yields to 40 tons.

The companies in the mission also included Unitherm, a cold chain provider; mechanization equipment providers, Kramer and Matrex, and was led by Mr Peter Verbaas, the director of the Dutch fruit and vegetables wholesale association, FrugiVenta.

GhanaVeg also presented findings on its private extension service study, which examined the three options of working with input suppliers to provide extension support to farmers.

These involved forming study clubs of farmers who share experience, knowledge and ideas and solve common challenges together, and a third option of using more consultancy services delivered by experts with vegetables as their specialization.

“We see great prospects in the third option. There are already a number of good agricultural consultancy companies in Ghana who are active in all kinds of sectors, including fruits and vegetables. What we would like to do with them is to see how they can expand their scope to training small scale farmers, groups of farmers and outgrower schemes with the latest state-of-the-art knowledge in vegetable production,” Mr Broek explained.

Working with smallholder farmers is a major requirement within GhanaVeg’s mandate, which is aimed at encouraging inclusive development.