WAFI 2025 World Agrifood Innovation Conference - Agrist Controllable Agriculture Forum Held in Beijing

On the morning of October 14, 2025, the "WAFI 2025 World Agrifood  Innovation Conference - Agrist Controllable Agriculture Forum" grandly opened at the Beijing Jinhaihu International Convention and Exhibition Center.

More than 200 participants, including academicians, experts, professors, and enterprise representatives from home and abroad, attended the forum offline, while the number of online live broadcast viewers exceeded one million. The forum was hosted by Du Taisheng, Vice President, Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor of China Agricultural University.

At the forum, Academician Kang Shaozhong and Professor Mujibar Rahman delivered keynote speeches respectively. Academician Kang Shaozhong focused on the theme "Development Trend and Future Key Research Directions of Agricultural Water-Saving Technology in China", providing an in-depth analysis of the development status and future breakthrough directions of domestic agricultural water-saving field. Professor Mujibar Rahman shared insights around the theme "Cultivating the Future: The Pivotal Role of Bangladesh Agricultural University in Ensuring Food Security and Building Resilient Food Systems in Bangladesh". Combining the actual needs of Bangladesh, he demonstrated the practical achievements of the controlled agriculture concept in ensuring food security and offered new ideas for cross-regional agricultural cooperation.

In addition, Mohsin Hafeez, Strategic Program Director of the Water, Food and Ecosystems (WFE) Domain at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), gave a special report on topics such as "From Weather to Wisdom: Smart Water and Irrigation Intelligence Empowering the Next Generation of Agriculture", sharing the innovative application of smart water conservancy and irrigation technology in modern agriculture.

During the roundtable forum session, experts and scholars from China, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Austria and other countries gathered to discuss the improvement and promotion path of the "ACA Controlled Agriculture Model". All parties conducted in-depth exchanges on core pain points in the development of modern agriculture, including the industry problems of disconnected "planning, construction and application", fragmented "facilities, digital technology and crops", the inefficient cycle of "high investment - low efficiency - re-investment", and the industrial dilemma of users being "unable or afraid to buy" and "farmers having difficulty in selling, citizens having difficulty in buying, and platforms facing difficulties in both purchasing and selling", providing diverse perspectives for solving these problems.

In the closing summary session, Vice President Du Taisheng emphasized that the WAFI 2025 World Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Conference - Controlled Agriculture Forum is of far-reaching significance. From the policy interpretation by Vice President Ou Hongxin of China Agricultural University, to the keynote sharing by Academician Kang Shaozhong and Professor Mujibar Rahman; from the special practical exchanges by Dr. Mohsin Hafeez and Lyu Mingli of Huawei Group, to the multi-party dialogue in the roundtable forum, the 3-hour agenda has condensed key consensuses, clarified development paths, and built a collaborative bridge. Among them, "controlled agriculture is the essential demand of smart agriculture" has become a consensus among all parties, the development path of "facilities adapting to crops and digital technology empowering facilities" has been confirmed, and the bridge for "government-industry-university-research-funding-application-innovation" collaborative cooperation has been officially built, injecting new impetus into the development of global controlled agriculture.