China News Service, Datong, September 12 (Reporter Hu Jian) The 7th China·Datong Chehe International Organic Agriculture Forum opened on the 12th in Datong, Shanxi. More than 100 experts and scholars from Chinese universities, local governments, and international organizations discussed organic The coordinated development of agriculture and ecological poverty alleviation.
This forum focused on the development of organic dry farming to drive high-quality agricultural development, organic agricultural cluster industry, organic agricultural industrialization development, and the construction of "three-in-one green supply chain" and other topics, aiming to increase the empowerment of organic agriculture and organic products , To achieve high-quality development from poverty alleviation to rural revitalization.
Zhou Zejiang, Asia Chairman of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, said that China has become the world's third largest market for organic products.
From 1990 to 2000, China's organic industry was mainly export-oriented. Since 2000, the domestic market has developed rapidly.
Up to now, the ratio of the domestic market to the export market of China's organic industry is 9:1.
Against the background of the global new crown pneumonia epidemic, China's organic industry has not been significantly affected, but has become more mature.
Zhou Zejiang believes that organic agriculture is a new way of "traditional agriculture + innovative thinking + modern technology" that people have explored in practice.
The development of organic agriculture is an important part of the rural development of rural revitalization, farmers' enrichment, and protection of the ecological environment. It can also play a special role in ecological poverty alleviation.
The 7th China Datong Chehe International Organic Agriculture Forum opened on the 12th in Datong, Shanxi.
Photo by Hu Jian
Jiang Peimin, secretary of the Party Committee of China Agricultural University, said in his speech that organic agriculture is one of the applications of agricultural modernization, and green development is the only way to revitalize rural areas. Combining organic agriculture with poverty alleviation is a pioneering work of the times.
China Agricultural University took the lead in organizing more than 70 experts and scholars, and jointly compiled the "Shanxi Lingqiu Organic Agriculture Park Implementation Plan", which initiated the reform and exploration of developing organic agriculture in impoverished mountainous areas to achieve poverty alleviation.
Zhang Jifu, member of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Datong Municipal Party Committee, said that the Chehe International Organic Agriculture Forum has become an important forum to discuss the development ideas, concepts, directions and paths of the organic agriculture industry.
In recent years, Datong has insisted on "playing the organic brand and taking the ecological road", and has built its brand throughout the entire agricultural industry chain. A large number of high-quality agricultural products such as yellow flowers, astragalus, miscellaneous grains, and edible fungus have emerged in Datong, which is to build a well-known national organic agricultural product demonstration base. Laid a solid foundation.
In recent years, Datong Lingqiu has explored an ecological poverty alleviation model based on the coordinated development of organic agriculture, organic communities, eco-tourism, and production and life ecology with the use and protection of water resources as the core.
Gain income through organic farming, cultivation, and sales of organic agricultural products, change the face of rural areas through the construction of organic communities in the National Organic Agriculture Park, and develop organic agriculture to protect water, soil, and air environmental resources.
This forum was hosted by the People's Government of Datong City, China Agricultural University, Taiyuan University of Technology, and Shanxi Agricultural University.
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