Author(s)

Yan Liu, YongGang Zhou, YanLi Chen, YaXin Li, Chen Feng, HaiYan Li^*

Affiliation(s)

School of Breeding and Multiplication, Hainan University, Sanya 572025, China

Corresponding Author

HaiYan Li

ABSTRACT

Amid the deepening implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative and the accelerating globalization of agriculture, the tropical crop industry in Southeast Asia is undergoing a pivotal transformation from traditional extensive farming to intelligent, sustainable, and integrated industrial chain development. This evolution underscores an urgent demand for versatile, practice-oriented, and internationally innovative talents. However, conventional agricultural education models are hindered by outdated curricula, disconnected practical training, and imbalanced talent competency structures, resulting in a severe misalignment between talent cultivation and industry needs. This paper, grounded in China’s tropical agricultural education practices and the experience of new agricultural sciences development, constructs a “Chinese Paradigm” of tropical crop agricultural teaching driven by industry demand, centered on curriculum reform, and utilizing industry-education integration as its pathway. Through comprehensive iterative upgrades of the educational system, this paradigm addresses the imbalance between talent supply and demand, leveraging China’s tropical agricultural technological advantages and educational resources to develop a replicable and scalable teaching model. It offers a Chinese solution for tropical crop talent cultivation to Southeast Asian countries along the Belt and Road, embodying China’s leading exemplary role and commitment to international agricultural educational cooperation.

KEYWORDS

Tropical crops; Industry demand; Agricultural education; Chinese paradigm; Industry-education integration; Belt and Road Initiative; Talent cultivation

CITE THIS PAPER

Yan Liu, YongGang Zhou, YanLi Chen, YaXin Li, Chen Feng, HaiYan Li. The “Chinese paradigm” of agricultural science education driven by the demands of the tropical crop industry. World Journal of Educational Studies. 2026, 4(2): 54-59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/wjes3144.

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