Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Sciences

For developing production and processing technology of tropical agriculture, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) was established in 1954. As the only national tropical agricultural research organization directly under the Ministry of Agriculture, PRC, CATAS carries out fundamental and applied researches on tropical agricultural sciences, enjoying comparatively high popularity for scientific research on tropical agriculture both at home and overseas, especially in the fundamental research fields such as researches on rubber, cassava and banana.