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Organic Villages in ChinaPosted Jan 31st 2007 4:04PM by Jonathan M. ForesterFiled under: Farming, Business, Organic, South Asia, TrendsNot too long ago I mentioned how Asia has taken on production of organic produce big time. One of the factors is the creation of Organic Farming Villages. These villages are strongly supported by the government through the China Organic Food Development Centre which was founded in 1994 and teaches and guides villages and farmers in growing organic crops. Due to the Centre's works, certified organic crops are grown in every province in the country with the exception of Tibet.In many ways these villages are getting back to their cultural roots, prior to the many edicts of Chairman Mao like "take grain as the key link", which led to large amounts of grain being grown with heavy chemical fertilizers and insecticides from around 1950 onwards, China was a heavily organic in its farming practices.Now China is learning to re-stabilize the fertility of their soil which was severely depleted from the unhealthy growing practices of the last half century. Unfortunately they are also having to address the health issues of those people who worked on, and ate from, the chemically inundated land.In his article, "The Anatomy of an Organic Village", Dr. Richard Sanders, Director of The China Centre at UCN states, "The number of products, acreage, yields and exports have all grown fast, as indeed has the domestic market for organic food. While the largest markets for organic products remain overseas, in Europe and Japan, supermarkets in Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Qingdao and Wuhan are now successfully selling wholly organic foods alongside conventional products, even though the former may be up to ten times more expensive than the latter."If you want to learn more about one organic village, Shifo village, in Baojia Township, Yuexi County, in the mountains of Dabie Shan in western Anhui province, China then please read this article.
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