Research and policy work at the Academy cover a broad range of topics that have been categorized as eight disciplinary clusters, 134 focused fields, and 309 research focuses. The eight disciplinary clusters include crop science, horticulture science, animal science, veterinary medicine, agricultural resources and environment, agricultural mechanization and engineering, agro-product quality, safety and processing, and agricultural information and economics.
| Disciplinary Cluster | Disciplines (not comprehensive) |
| Crop Science | crop germplasm resources crop genetics and breeding crop molecular biology crop cultivation and physiology crop molecular breeding crop functional genomics crop proteomics crop metabonomics bioinformatics and 14 others |
| Horticulture Science | vegetable germplasm resources and breeding vegetable molecular biology vegetable cultivation and ecophysiology flower germplasm resource and genetic breeding fruit germplasm resource and breeding fruit cultivation and ecophysiology tea germplasm resource and genetic breeding tea cultivation and ecophysiology special and economically important crops and two others |
| Animals Science | animal resources and genetic breeding animal biotechnology and reproduction animal nutrition feed and feed additives forage resources and breeding feed biotechnology genetic resources and breeding of special animals pollinator biology insect pollination and ecology and four others |
| Veterinary Science | animal immunobiology animal influenza swine infectious diseases poultry infectious diseases foot-and-mouth disease amphixenosis exotic diseases and fulminating infectious diseases parasitic diseases pet diseases and veterinary public health traditional Chinese veterinary medicine veterinary medicine engineering and six others |
| Agricultural Resources and Environment | plant diseases insect pests weeds and rodents pesticides crop biosafety microbial resources and utilization agricultural meteorology dry land and water-efficient agriculture agricultural water resource safety and utilization soil sciences plant nutrition and fertilizer agricultural ecology agricultural environmental engineering agricultural environmental control and remediation agricultural environmental monitoring and evaluation nanometer agricultural technology agricultural region planning and nine others |
| Agricultural Mechanization and Engineering | irrigation techniques and engineering farmland drainage techniques and engineering agricultural and forestry biomass transformation engineering biogas engineering cultivation machinery harvest machinery agro-product processing machinery plant protection and resource utilization machinery grassland machinery |
| Agro-product Quality, Safety and Processing | agro-product quality and safety monitoring and evaluation agro-product risk precaution and evaluation process control of agro-product quality and safety agro-product quality and safety management food nutrition and safety agro-product processing quality and safety of agro-product processing agro-product preservation and logistics agro-product processing and 16 others |
| Agricultural Information and Economics | agricultural information management agricultural information techniques agricultural information analysis agricultural remote sensing and information industrial economy and policies technical economics and policies agricultural product market and trade rural development and policies food nutrition strategies and policies |
