Acta Agriculturae Boreali-occidentalis Sinica is an academic journal supervised by the Ministry of Education and co-sponsored by the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (NAFU) in conjunction with the Academies of Agricultural (Forestry) Sciences and the Academies of Animal Husbandry (Veterinary) Sciences in Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and Xinjiang. Since its inception in 1992, it has become a well-known comprehensive agricultural science Chinese core journal at home and abroad, and is included in a number of databases. The journal mainly publishes academic papers and scientific research results in the fields of agronomy, forestry, plant protection, soil fertiliser, water-saving irrigation, dryland agriculture, horticulture, food processing, storage and preservation, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, agricultural machinery, farmland water conservancy, etc. It is aimed at readers such as scientific and technological personnel of agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, teachers and students of agricultural colleges and universities, and management personnel of agricultural science and technology.