Ecological Systems and Devices Annotation << Back THE CASE OF GEORGIAN NATIONAL PLANT GERMPLASM EXCHANGE WITH EAST CHINA’S SHANDONG PROVINCE А.А. Korakhashvili, L.A. Korakhashvili Role in genetic resources for stability in food security is the raw materials upon which a huge country like China and a small country like Georgia, relies to improve the yield productivity and quality of domesticated cultivated plants on the basis of maintaining population of cultural and wild species. Conservation, improvement, adaptation and sustainable use of genetic resources in agriculture is therefore at the core of food security, nutrition and safety of our countries. Exchanging and using access germplasm or agrobiodiversity of our two countries – both among species and cultivated cropsannual and perennial cultures is mane securing options to respond to future challenges for future generations [1]. All agricultural commodities and the varieties in all of the world used in modern technological production systems descend from a vast array of wild and improved genetic resources. High effective agricultural production depends on continuing infusions of genetic resources to ensure yield stability and sustained growth in any country. Georgia as a country with rich germplasm could provide by crop biodiversity even so a huge country like China. That’s why cooperation in this field started in 2016 between Shandong Province of China and Georgia, provided by the China-Russian Center of high technologies adaptation, in Techno Park and LLC Yantai Hi-Tech company for International Cooperation Association High and New Technologies «Silk Road», SRHPA. Each country relies on other countries for access to genetic resources (also called germplasm) that cannot be found within its own national boundaries. The exchange of germplasm among countries has a long history in China and Georgia, and became routine as modern agriculture came into being. The gains from exchange of germplasm are the combinations of genes that are not possible otherwise; almost every plant species of major economic importance to China has come from or been improved with germplasm from elsewhere. Even countries like Georgia that served as «centers of origin» as certain crops were domesticated rarely have the broad spectrum of germplasm they desire. The extent to which both rich and poor countries have benefi ted from the exchange of germplasm has been developed [2, 3]. Keywords: China-Russian Center of High Technologies adaptation; Cooperative project; Genetic plasm; Agrobiodiversity; Commercialization of Varieties and Technologies. DOI: 10.25791/esip.02.2021.1212 Pp. 46-50.