The college consists of 4 departments, 7 schools, 1 workshop, 1 room and 1 center. Department 4: Department of Crop Science, Department of Plant Genetics and Breeding, Department of Biotechnology and Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Chinese Medicinal Materials and Plant Science; 7 Institute of rice, sugarcane, potato, konjac, Chinese Herbal medicine, Perilla and edible fungi; One is the teaching experiment farm in the school; Room 1 is the Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Sustainable Utilization in Yunnan Universities; 1 The center is the Experimental Teaching Center of Crop Science (Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Higher Education in Yunnan Province, Undergraduate Practical Ability Improvement Project Center of Yunnan Province).
Adhering to the policy of "making full use of existing talents, actively introducing senior talents and striving to cultivate reserve talents", the college has established a faculty team with reasonable age structure and high quality. At present, there are 98 faculty members (86 full-time teachers), including 17 full-time teachers, 40 associate teachers, 34 secondary teachers and 6 junior teachers. 79.6% of the teachers have master's degree, among which 49 have doctor's degree and 29 have master's degree. There are 9 doctoral supervisors and 31 master supervisors. Post 1 expert, national modern agriculture industry system in yunnan province modern agricultural industry system experts 7, 1 yuengling scholars, outstanding contribution expert 3 people in yunnan province, the provincial government special allowance experts 1 person, 2 colleges and universities teaching scientific research and academic leaders in yunnan province, yunnan province special support plan teaching masters high-level personnel 2 people, 4 people, teaching masters in universities in yunnan province There are 7 young and middle-aged academic leaders and reserve talents in Yunnan Province, and 2 innovative talents training objects in Yunnan Province. A group of doctors, masters and visiting scholars from the United States, The United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Thailand and the Netherlands are becoming the backbone of teaching and research.
The college has a doctoral program in crop genetics and Breeding and a master's program in crop Science. There are 5 master's degree programs in crop Cultivation and Tillage, crop Genetics and Breeding, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Botany, medicinal Plant Resources, and 2 professional master's degree programs in crop and seed industry. With agriculture (national outstanding talent cultivation of agriculture and forestry projects, the national characteristic specialty, provincial brand), biotechnology (national characteristic specialty, provincial key), seed science and engineering (national outstanding talent training plan, the field of agriculture and forestry characteristic professional) and four this specialized subject professional cultivation and identification of Chinese herbal medicine. There are 1352 students in total, including 35 doctoral students, 165 master's students and 1152 undergraduate students.
The college takes talent cultivation as the center and attaches importance to the cultivation of students' comprehensive quality. Relying on its own strong team of teachers and advanced scientific research and teaching conditions, strengthen the reform of teaching content, curriculum system, training objectives, training models, learning methods and teaching means, and constantly improve the quality of education and teaching. Pay attention to teaching practice and actively carry out science, technology and cultural activities in and out of class, encourage students to be diligent in thinking, brave in innovation, participate in teachers' scientific research projects, and actively participate in social practice activities; Focus on cultivating high-quality application-oriented and compound talents with solid foundation, wide range of knowledge, strong adaptability, all-round development of morality, intelligence, body and beauty, practical ability and innovative spirit, and meet the needs of economic construction and social development of the country and border ethnic areas.
For a long time, while doing their own teaching work well, the teachers of the college have actively carried out scientific research. The number of scientific research projects and achievements obtained by the teachers of the college have been increasing year by year. Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, it has undertaken 214 scientific research projects with a total funding of 124 million yuan, including 77 national projects with a science and technology funding of 70.78 million yuan. The achievement of high - level scientific research is much, the achievement characteristic is obvious. He has published 75 SCI indexed papers, and published a number of high-level papers in Molecular Plant Pathology, Bmc Genomics, Plos One and other journals. It has won 18 provincial and ministerial science and technology achievement awards and approved 59 crop varieties. 16 authorized invention patents; A number of important achievements have been made in the research fields of high-quality and high-yield hybrid rice, wheat, potato, corn, sugarcane, rape and Chinese medicinal materials. The college always insists on giving full play to its disciplinary advantages, actively participating in local economic construction and serving local social development. In particular, in the "Yunnan Province grain Increase Project of 10 billion jin", the "3+3" joint action of school-county cooperation, and the scientific and technological service of enriching yunnan province, the college has actively organized professors and doctors with professional expertise to participate in various projects, making due contributions to the food security and local social and economic development of Yunnan Province.
Taking advantage of the location of Yunnan, the College has established partnerships with university of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, Rice Technology Corporation in the United States, Kagoshima University in Japan, Lingnan University in South Korea, Casaset University in Thailand, Rio Grande Rice Research Institute in Southwest Pakistan, International Rice Institute in the Philippines, As well as Pakistan, Indonesia, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Laos and other countries of universities and research institutions established extensive exchanges and cooperation, in scientific research, academic exchange and cooperation to cultivate students, technical training, etc, has obtained the good effect, active service for college and into the national "area" and "radiation South Asia, southeast Asia" in yunnan province development strategy laid a solid foundation.