四川省农业科学院是四川省人民政府直属的正厅级综合性农业科研事业单位，前身为1938年成立的四川省农业改进所，至今已有86年历史。
坚持新发展理念，融入新发展格局，新一届院党委、行政坚持“以政治建设为统揽，以强院目标为引领，以院史院训为守循，以“三五四”为发展思路，以人才科研为根本，以转化应用为导向，以改革创新为动力，以条件平台为支撑，以团结和谐为基础，以制度作风为保障”的新时期强院建设“十个以”总体谋划，坚持党建引领、凝心铸魂，持续构建“团结和谐、大气包容”良好氛围。
作为四川省农业科技进步的排头兵、农业科技创新的主力军和“三农”工作的重要智库，主要开展农业基础、农业应用基础、农业应用、农业装备和软科学研究，提供农业公共科技供给和应急科技支撑；开展重大农业科技创新，组织农业科技力量协同攻关；开展农业新技术研发、科技成果示范与转移转化、技术培训与普及，组织管理和实施承担的农业科技工程项目；开展国内外科技合作交流、技术贸易活动；开展科技宣传和人才培养；开展“三农”战略问题研究，参与全省“三农”决策咨询；完成省委、省政府及农业农村厅交办的其他任务。
目前，全院设有12个职能处室和机关党委，18个科研机构和1个所级科研保障机构，设有海南分院。研究和开发领域涵盖粮、经、饲作物、畜禽与水产，涉及作物（动物）遗传育种、耕作栽培、植物保护、畜牧与兽医、土壤肥料、资源环境、农业微生物、生物技术、农用核技术、蚕业、分析测试、农业遥感、农产品储藏加工、农业信息、农业经济、农业机械、农业工程等80余个学科和领域。建有国际、国家、部、省级等科研平台101个，其中国际合作平台4个、省部级科研平台93个、国家博士后科研工作站1个、省博士后创新实践基地1个。与南充、绵阳、攀枝花等14个市州共建14个分院。在新都、郫都、彭州、青白江、邛崃、大邑、泸县、德阳、南充、宜宾、乐至及海南陵水、云南西双版纳等建有科研试验基地，其中有土地产权基地总面积7000余亩。
截至目前，全院在职职工1652人，其中，正高级专家202人、副高级专家374人，博士310人、硕士596人；百千万人才工程国家级人选4人，国务院政府特殊津贴专家40人；四川杰出人才奖2人，四川省学术和技术带头人52人，四川省有突出贡献的优秀专家39人，“天府青城计划”入选专家25人，“天府峨眉计划”入选专家2人。
“十三五”以来，全院获国家、部省级科技成果奖250项，其中国家科技进步奖二等奖5项、省科技进步一等奖20项、全国农牧渔业丰收奖一等奖8项、神农中华农业科技奖一等奖7项，获得省部级成果数量和等级位居全省前茅；通过审定动植物新品种900余个，占全省审定品种数的40%以上，其中国家审定新品种238个；我院作为第一技术依托单位研制的省主推技术383项（次），占全省农业主推技术的49%，连续10年位居全省第一。
站在新的历史起点，四川省农业科学院将深入学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想，坚持以党的二十大精神和习近平总书记对四川工作系列重要指示精神为指引，认真贯彻落实党和国家以及省委省政府重大决策部署，对标对表四川农业强省建设要求，始终心系“国之大者”，勇担历史使命，进一步优化科研力量布局、深化科研组织方式变革、提升创新体系整体效能，加快成果转移转化服务区域产业发展，着力打造结构合理、素质优良的高层次人才“雁阵”，全面推进高水平对外开放，大力推动管理组织结构、运行模式和制度机制变革，推动“国内一流、国际知名”强院建设迈上新台阶，切实为打造新时代更高水平“天府粮仓”、加快推进农业强省建设、谱写中国式现代化四川新篇章作出新贡献。
The Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (SAAS) is a comprehensive agricultural research institution at the level of a department directly under the People's Government of Sichuan Province. Its predecessor was the Sichuan Agriculture Improvement Institute established in 1938, and it has a history of 86 years up to now.
SAAS adheres to the new development concept and integrates into the new development pattern. The new leadership team of SAAS, both Party Committee and Administration, implement “Ten As” strategies to build a strong academy, takes political construction as the overall principle, guided by the goal of strengthening the academy, upholds its history and motto, follows the "354" development strategy, and prioritizes talent and scientific research. It takes transformation and application of scientific research results as the guidance, reform and innovation as the driving force, conditional platforms as the support, unity and harmony as the foundation, and institutional system and work conduct as the guarantee. It upholds the leadership of party building to strengthen cohesion and consolidate the spirit, continuing to build a good atmosphere of "unity, harmony, and inclusiveness".
As the vanguard of agricultural scientific and technological progress in Sichuan Province, the main force of agricultural scientific and technological innovation, and an important think tank for Sichuan's work concerning agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, SAAS primarily engages in research on agricultural fundamentals, agricultural application foundations, agricultural applications, agricultural equipment, and soft science, providing agricultural public supply and scientific and technological emergency response. It is devoted to major agricultural scientific and technological innovations and the coordination of agricultural scientific and technological forces to tackle problems collaboratively. It focuses on the R&D of new agricultural technologies, demonstration, transfer, and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and scientific and technological training and popularization, organizing, managing and implementing agricultural science and technology projects undertaken by itself. It facilitates domestic and international scientific and technological cooperation and exchanges, as well as technology trade activities, and undertakes science and technology promotion and talent development programs. It also carries out research on strategic issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, participates in the province's decision-making and consulting work on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, and fulfills other tasks assigned by the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee, People's Government of Sichuan Province, and the Sichuan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
It has 12 functional departments and a party committee, 18 scientific research institutions, 1 institute-level institution for scientific research supplies and management, and a Hainan Branch. Its research and development fields cover grain, economic crops, feed crops, livestock, and aquatic products, involving more than 80 disciplines such as crop (animal) genetic breeding, farming and cultivation, plant protection, animal husbandry and veterinary, soil fertilizer, resource and environment, agricultural microorganism, biotechnology, agricultural nuclear technology, silkworm industry, analysis and testing, agricultural remote sensing, agricultural product storage and processing, agricultural information, agricultural economy, and agricultural engineering. It has established 101 international, national, ministerial and provincial scientific research platforms, including 4 international cooperation platforms, 93 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms, 1 national postdoctoral scientific research workstation and 1 provincial postdoctoral innovation practice base. It has built 14 branches in 14 cities and prefectures such as Nanchong, Mianyang and Panzhihua. It has developed scientific research and test bases in regions such as Xindu, Pidu, Pengzhou, Qingbaijiang, Qionglai, Dayi, Luxian County, Deyang, Nanchong, Yibin, Lezhi, Lingshui Li Autonomous County in Hainan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan, possessing the right to use the state-owned land with a total area of more than 466.67 hectares (7,000 mu).
Up to now, there are 1,652 employees in SAAS, including 202 experts with senior professional titles, 374 experts with deputy senior professional titles, 310 doctors and 596 masters; 4 national candidates for the "Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Project", 40 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council; 2 experts winning the "Sichuan Outstanding Talent Award", 52 academic and technical leaders of Sichuan Province, 39 excellent experts with outstanding contributions in Sichuan Province, and 25 experts selected for the "Tianfu Qingcheng Plan". 2 experts selected for the "Tianfu Emei Plan".
Since the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, SAAS has won 250 scientific and technological achievement awards at the national, ministerial, and provincial levels, including 5 second prizes of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award, 20 first prizes of the Sichuan Science and Technology Progress Award, 8 first prizes of the National Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fishery Harvest Award, and 7 first prizes of the Shennong China Agricultural Science and Technology Award, ranking among the top in the province in terms of the number and level of provincial and ministerial achievements. Its 900 new animal and plant varieties have passed the certification, accounting for more than 40% of the number of certified varieties in the province. Among them, 238 new varieties have been certified at the national level. As the first technical support institution, SAAS has developed 383 provincial leading technologies, accounting for 49% of the number of leading technologies in the province, ranking 1st in the province for ten consecutive years.
Standing at a new historical starting point, the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences will thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Guided by the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and President Xi Jinping's series of important instructions regarding work in Sichuan, the Academy will earnestly adhere to the major decisions and deployments of the Party, the State, and the Provincial Government. Aligning with the goals for building a strong agricultural province in Sichuan, it will consistently keep national priorities in mind and bravely shoulder its historical mission. This includes further optimizing the layout of its research capabilities, deepening the reform of research organization methodologies, and enhancing the overall effectiveness of its innovation system. The Academy will accelerate the transfer and transformation of scientific achievements to support regional industrial development, and focus on creating a well-structured, high-quality talent pool akin to a "wild goose formation." Additionally, it will comprehensively promote high-level international openness and vigorously advance changes in management organization structures, operational models, and institutional mechanisms. By building itself into a "domestically first-class, internationally renowned" institution, the Academy aims to make significant contributions towards establishing a new level of the "Tianfu Granary" for the new era, speeding up the construction of a strong agricultural province, and writing a new chapter of modernization in Sichuan with Chinese characteristics.