Research and development of forage germplasm resource database based on GIS and VB.net

Present study explained how to estabish the forage germplasm resource database in Qinghai Province through the utilization of Map Objects in Geographic Information System (GIS) software, the programming language of Microsoft Visual Basic.net 2.0 and ACCESS database system. The database was aimed to achieve the objectives of search, manage and print out of information on forage germplasm. And it consisted two components: the forage germplasm resource database which was for the data search, information display, report generation and print; and the spatial database which was for the search of geographic information.