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BEIJING, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Lingqiu County in north China's Shanxi Province has taken organic agriculture

as an effective way to push forward the high-quality rural development.

Themed on "organic agriculture promotes high-quality rural development", the

ninth China Datong Chehe International Organic Agriculture Forum was held on

Saturday in Datong City, north China's Shanxi Province.

Nearly 100 well-known experts and scholars from home and abroad gathered

together both online and offline to discuss the future development direction of

organic agriculture.

The event was convened for the first time in 2014 and has been successfully

held for eight consecutive sessions.

Ai Lingyu, deputy secretary of the CPC Datong Municipal Committee said at the

opening ceremony of the forum that it is necessary to give full play to the

forum's platform advantage, and constantly optimize the organic agricultural

production system, policy( https://en.imsilkroad.com/policy/index.html ) system

and marketing system in a bid to let "Datong organic food" shine brighter all

over the country and gain a foothold in the overseas market.

Since 2013, Lingqiu County in Datong City has explored a new way of

agricultural transformation and development and took organic agriculture as the

basic task and development goal.

Meanwhile, Lingqiu has also adopted a development mode featuring the

combination of organic agriculture, beautiful countryside, and eco-tourism. It

has built six communities with the organic agriculture as the mainstay.

As the first village-level organic agriculture model in Lingqiu,Chehe Organic

Community saw the per capita income increase from 2,300 yuan in 2013 to 21,500

yuan in 2020.

After nearly a decade of development, Lingqiu County boasts an organic

agricultural production area of nearly 100,000 mu (about 66.67 square

kilometers), 54 certified organic products, and more than 30 organic

agricultural production businesses.

Experts at the forum also believed that organic agriculture can play a positive

role in solving food safety problems, steadily increasing rural income

levels,as well as improving ecological environment security.

Original link: https://en.imsilkroad.com/p/329422.html

SOURCE:  Xinhua Silk Road

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