蒋高明 10月20日的中国日报，以《有机食品：中国出路》为题，介绍了有机食品生产与销售中的一些问题，并采访笔者观点。目前，市场上有机食品开始增加并逐渐走向老百姓餐桌，但价格偏高。很多人认为有机食品产品低，就需要卖高价，实际上这存在误区。有机农业只要认真做，在开始一两年可能产量收影响，但以后可能会超过化肥农业产量。因此，仅靠提高价格销售有机食品并不是好的出路。 但是，农民种地的积极性要得到保证，价格上也需要提高一些，提高的幅度应与其进城打工收入有可比性。记者介绍了笔者小组在山东平邑(原文写成Pingdu了)的实验。我们的实验充分表现，只要认真做有机农业，产量会提高的，农民的收入也会提高的，关键要找好市场的平衡点。 Organic food, a way out http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/90880/7621735.html ( China Daily ) 09:59, October 20, 2011 BEIJING, Oct 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Organic farming produces food that is priced two or three times higher than food without organic certification, but it is popular with consumers who see it as healthier. This new - but essentially very traditional - agricultural technique excludes or strictly limits the use of manufactured fertilizers, pesticides, plant growth regulators and genetically modified organisms. It relies instead on techniques such as crop rotation, biological pest control and "green manure" - a crop of, say, legumes and grass that is dug in to return nutrients to the soil or is cut and left on the surface as mulch. Organic foods are not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents or chemical additives. Jiang Gaoming, a researcher at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his team have been learning organic farming on experimental plots in Pingyi county, Shandong province, since 2007. They used wheat and corn straw as feed for stock and used the animal waste to fertilize vegetables. Trapping lamps were put out for insects, and farmers killed weeds by hand. The researchers are trying to ascertain the costs and earnings from farming without chemicals, but Jiang said they don't yet have the details they need to issue a report. He said widespread expansion of organic farms will require increased technical training, higher initial investment and, of course, more farmers willing to make the switch. But he remains optimistic. "Less than one in a million people eats organic food regularly in China, which shows that there is great potential in the market," he said. By Yang Wanli
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