Northwest A&F University (NWAFU) is in Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China. It describes itself as a key national comprehensive university under the administration of the Ministry of Education. It traces its origin to the National Northwest Junior College of Agriculture and Forestry, founded in 1934, and took its present form in 1999 when seven teaching and research institutions merged, including Northwest Agricultural University, Northwest Forestry College and the Institute of Soil and Water Conservation.
The university says its strengths include crop genetics and breeding, disease and insect pest control, soil and water conservation, efficient agricultural water use in arid areas, livestock and poultry breeding, agricultural biotechnology and grape and wine research. It credits its researchers with the wheat varieties Bima-1 and Xiaoyan-6 and the Qinguan apple. Its College of Agronomy started undergraduate training in 1936. NWAFU says it cooperates with more than 500 local governments and leading enterprises and has built 28 agricultural science and technology experiment demonstration stations.