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Organic crops are selling like hot cakes

From “paying to marry off a daughter” in the past to turning waste into treasure today March water warms, and the spring ploughing boom is in full swing. Recently, reporters learned during an investigation in Jiangxia District that an increasing number of farmers are happy to apply organic fertiliser. Yesterday, in Laoqi Village, Zhendian Street, Jiangxia District, three transport vehicles were busy hauling dark biogas slurry into the greenhouses. The village...
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Two Sessions Agriculture Bills and Proposals – Proposal on Vigorously Developing the Organic Food Industry

Proposal on vigorously developing the organic food industry Submitted by: Li Xiaohua, Deputy to the National People's Congress and Chairman of Sichuan Longxing Agriculture Technology Co., Ltd. Vigorously developing organic agriculture in our country not only aligns with the comprehensive establishment of a harmonious society, coordinating the harmonious development of humanity and nature, and the requirements of scientific development...
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3•15 Observer Team: Taking a close look at “organic food”

Source: Taiyuan News Network Breaking open a tomato to check its colour, grabbing a handful of rice to inspect its sheen, eating a bite of an egg to taste its flavour, and biting into a steamed bun to smell the aroma of wheat... Yesterday morning, the “3/15 Citizens” Observation Group", jointly initiated by Taiyuan Evening News, the Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the Municipal Consumers' Association, began its...
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Proposal by the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang Shenyang Municipal Committee receives attention as Shenyang vigorously develops organic agriculture and organic food

    Recently, a proposal entitled "On Vigorously Developing Organic Agriculture and Organic Food" by the Shenyang Municipal Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang has attracted the attention of relevant departments in Shenyang. The Shenyang Municipal Agriculture Commission stated that it would carefully study and adopt the opinions and suggestions in the proposal to vigorously develop organic agriculture...
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Local quality supervision bureaux and quarantine bureaux carry out special inspections on organic products, focusing on strengthening the supervision of imported organic food

   Recently, provincial and municipal bureaus of quality and technical supervision and entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureaus have successively carried out special supervision and inspections on organic products, focusing on the validity of certification of organic products sold in circulation sectors such as large shopping malls and supermarkets. The key targets for investigation and punishment include the counterfeiting of...
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In the 2010 cnca spot checks on organic products, all FOFCC-certified products tested were found to be compliant!

In order to ascertain the quality status of organic products in our country and promote the continuous improvement of the effectiveness of organic product certification in our country, cnca, following the special supervision and spot checks on organic products in 2008 and 2009, once again organised and carried out a survey in 2010 on four major categories of organic products, namely rice/paddy, edible fungi, tea, and bee products...
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Obsessed with “organic pigs”, a coal baron creates his own farming model to become a pig keeper deep in the Xia County mountains

        Four years ago, he gave up the privileged lifestyle of a coal baron and went to the Zhongtiao Mountains in Xia County to start free-range organic wild boar farming. He poured his entire fortune into it. Advancing through trial and error, in...
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Organic food enters the lives of ordinary Chinese people

    At the organic food counter in Beijing's New World Department Store supermarket, sales assistant Hu Yating is busy packing organic vegetables for customers. Every morning, more than 200 jin of fresh organic vegetables are transported from the suburbs to the downtown supermarket. According to Hu Yating...
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Buying New Year goods: Watch out for “green and organic foods” past their use-by dates

In a large supermarket, law enforcement officers from the Shenyang City Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau explained to reporters how to identify organic food labels. A bag of ordinary rice had four different labels printed on the packaging. Ordinary consumers would find it very difficult to understand their meanings, let alone choose the one with the best value for money...
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cnca: The quality of organic products in China remains stable, with the pass rate of certified organic products exceeding 95%.

    Xinhua News Agency reported from cnca on 28th January that the results of the random supervision and inspection of organic product certification carried out by certification regulatory authorities nationwide last year show that the majority of certification bodies and certified enterprises are able to carry out certification and production in accordance with relevant certification systems and standards...
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With the approach of the two festivals, Lidao and organic food gift boxes are quietly selling well.

    With the two upcoming festivals approaching, many gift counters have seen a peak in customer traffic. At present, a variety of organic and ecological gifts are gradually becoming the top choice for people giving gifts during the festival. Yesterday, reporters at the Jinyuan New Yansha Mall saw at a gift counter called "Lidaohe" that the gift exhibition area was swarming with people all around...
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General Secretary Hu inspects organic vegetable production enterprise

    “The ”veggie basket" is closely linked with people's lives. Recently, ensuring the supply of vegetables and stabilising vegetable prices has become a common concern among the general public. Bearing this issue in mind, General Secretary Hu Jintao came to Beijing Jinfu Yinong Agricultural Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. ...
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Major food safety risks, experts suggest eating organic food where possible

Food safety issues are increasingly arousing public concern. According to a recent survey by Tsinghua University, food safety surpassed social security and medical safety in 2010 to become the security issue of most concern to the public this year. In other words, the public has become increasingly uneasy about food safety. Organic food online supermarket...
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Promoting straw bioreactor technology to boost incomes

    In order to further increase the economic output value of facility agriculture, focusing on the production of high-quality, premium and safe vegetables, Liaoyang Dengta City has vigorously introduced advanced production technologies and pioneered the promotion of a new greenhouse cultivation technique across the city: the straw biological reactor. This technology...