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BEIJING, Dec. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Themed on full-scale organic agriculture and countywide rural vitalization, the

eighth International Forum of Organic Agriculture was convened in Datong City*,

Shanxi Province in north China during December 6-7.

The forum, jointly organized by Datong People's Government, China Agricultural

University, Taiyuan University of Technology and Shanxi Agricultural

University, attracted over 80 experts and scholars at home and abroad to

exchange views on topics such as the status quo and trend of organic industry,

Lingqiu County's practices on full-scale organic agriculture, organic

dry-farming, organic community and organic village construction.

Recent years, Datong City has poured great efforts into developing organic

dry-farming and through farmland quality improvement, research on seeds of

improved variety for dry-farming and green development, a batch of

demonstration counties, areas and promotion zones came into being in the city.

Zhang Qiang, the city mayor, said on the opening ceremony of the forum that

Datong will further leverage the role of organic dry-farming in growing the

city's advantages as the place of origin for related organic farm produces and

gradually popularize the "Chehe Mode" to build more organic agriculture

demonstration zones.

Chehe Mode here refers to such an economic development path as combines organic

agriculture, ecotourism and beautiful village construction altogether,

represented by the practices of Chehe Village at Hongshileng Town, Lingqiu

County of Datong City. Since 2013, Lingqiu County started its organic

agricultural demonstration park and zone construction from Chehe Village.

Regardless of other counties in Datong, Lingqiu County developed an economic

growth path characterized by full-scale organic agriculture and managed to

gradually shed reliance on land selling-based fiscal revenue and energy economy.

By far, Lingqiu County has 60 organically certified agricultural products, more

than 30 organic agricultural producers and 6,666.67 hectares of farmland for

organic agriculture.

As Zhang introduced, the city will also expand cooperation with renowned

universities and research institutions at home and abroad to press ahead with

cooperation in production, supply and sales projects related to the entire

organic agriculture industry.

*Datong City, located in the region with a temperate monsoon climate, boasts

unique advantages in developing organic agriculture given its obvious day and

night temperature difference and long sunshine time.

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Source: Xinhua Silk Road