Int'l macadamia nut conference opens in SW China

Source: Xinhua | 2019-11-06

An international macadamia nut conference kicked off Tuesday in Lincang, a border city in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
The three-day academic conference has brought together about 300 industry experts and entrepreneurs from 12 countries and regions including Australia and the United States to discuss the development of the global macadamia nut industry.
Zhang Zhizheng, mayor of Lincang, said at the event that he hoped the conference would help boost academic research on macadamia nuts and provide a platform to tackle the challenges facing the industry.
The macadamia nut, indigenous to Australia, was first introduced to Lincang in the early 1990s. The city on the China-Myanmar border has grown into one of the world's largest macadamia nut production base over the years, boasting a planting area of more than 175,000 hectares this year, according to the city's forestry and grassland bureau.