Photo shows the 11th China Datong Chehe International Organic Agriculture Forum held in Lingqiu County of Datong City, north China's Shanxi Province from August 23 to 25. (Source: Xinhua Finance)
BEIJING, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The 11th China Datong Chehe International Organic Agriculture Forum was held in Lingqiu County of Datong City, north China's Shanxi Province from August 23 to 25.
The forum brought together over 200 experts from home and abroad to share views on organic agriculture development and rural revitalization.
Since 2014, the forum has been held for ten consecutive sessions. On this year's forum, the top ten pieces of news concerning organic agriculture in 2024 were released, the cutting-edge agricultural technology for saving water during dry farming was demonstrated, and the city's characteristic organic agricultural products were introduced.
Over the years, Datong has leveraged the forum to continuously update the frontier knowledge in organic agriculture, harvest the latest agricultural sci-tech innovation, and carry out the practice of rural revitalization, said Ai Lingyu, deputy party chief of Datong, adding that the organic agriculture has become an important engine to promote high-quality agricultural development and rural revitalization.
In recent years, Datong has accelerated the construction of an agro-pastoral transition demonstration zone, an organic dry farming agriculture demonstration zone, and a meat production platform. It has also promoted the development of animal husbandry, forest economy, fisheries, high-standard farmland, and deep processing of agricultural products.
Since 2013, relying on good environmental resources, Lingqiu County of the city has explored an ecological poverty alleviation model with the coordinated development of organic agriculture, organic community and eco-tourism.
Up to now, Lingqiu County has built 30,000 mu (2,000 hectares) of organic food production base, including 13 organic certification bases with certified areas of 10,000 mu and 108 certified varieties of agricultural products. The total output value of Lingqiu's organic agriculture has reached 500 million yuan (about 70.39 million U.S. dollars).
(Edited by Tian Shenyoujia with Xinhua Silk Road, tianshenyoga0524@163.com)
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