The 29th International Symposium of the Scientific Centre for Fertilizers held in Shenyang

 

Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the 29th International Symposium of the Scientific Centre for Fertilizers (CIEC) was conducted a second time as a hybrid conference in Shenyang on December 6, 2021, entitled "Challenges of food production and fertilization in a virtual world". The symposium was hosted by CIEC, care of the Institute of Applied Ecology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and the Institute of Crop and Soil Science at JKI in Braunschweig, Germany. CIEC was founded 88 years ago and is a club of scientists who are solely dedicated to fertilizers and soil fertility. Since its founding, around 24,000 scientists have participated in 17 World Fertilizer Congresses and 28 Fertilizer Symposia that have been organized by CIEC in 26 countries around the world. Scientists from six countries presented and discussed their research on fertilizer technology, nutrient management, soil quality and amelioration, soil fertility, plant microbe interaction, and special aspects of sulfur nutrition and foliar fertilization. The opening ceremony was chaired by Silvia Haneklaus, Secretary General of CIEC. CIEC’s president, Prof. Lanzhu Ji, and honorary President, Prof. Ewald Schnug, delivered welcome speeches in which they stressed the difficulties encountered in the area of science communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the closing ceremony, Prof. Yuanliang Shi announced that the 30th International Symposium of the Scientific Centre for Fertilizers was still scheduled to be held in Cairo, Egypt, in November 2022, and the 18th World Fertilizer Conference will be conducted in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China in early August 2022.