Organic product threshold is too high or the average farmer is rejected

From March 1st, China began to implement the new regulations for organic product certification - the newly revised "Organic Product Certification Implementation Rules" will ensure that all certified products have been tested; the "Organic Product Certification Catalogue" for vegetables, milk and 37 major categories of products Launched organic certification; opened the "National Organic Product Certification Mark Record Management System" to ensure traceability of organic products.

According to industry experts, the certification process of the new standard is too harsh and it can be regarded as one of the most stringent standards in the world. Zhou Zejiang, a researcher of the Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, participated in the formulation of the new regulations. In his opinion, it may be because the organic products market was too confusing and there were too many counterfeits. The relevant departments simply established the most stringent certification standards and allowed the certifiers. Dilemma. The starting point is to regulate the market, but it is actually not conducive to the development of organic agriculture.

What is the way out for organic products?

There are too many counterfeits, and relevant departments raise the threshold for authentication.

On the very day when the new regulations for organic product certification began, Zhou Zejiang and several British organic agricultural experts visited eco-agriculture in rural Jiangjin, Chongqing. Chen Xueming, deputy manager of Chongqing Suiqin Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., asked Zhou Zejiang how to conduct organic product certification. Zhou Zejiang said that the new standard for organic certification is the most stringent standard in the world. Among them, the vegetables are the strictest. If there are 50 kinds of vegetables, each one must be certified, and each kind of certification personnel must go to the ground for verification. This means that the certifier will come at least five or six times a year.

In Zhou Zejiang's opinion, he does not recommend that all farmers go to the certification road, and they can win consumers with conscience and credibility.

“Every time a major food safety incident occurs, the phone call of the 'small donkey' will be detonated,” said Pan Jiaen, executive director of the Guoren Urban-rural (Beijing) Science and Technology Development Center and head of the Beijing small donkey citizen farm. However, the donkeys in the organic farming industry do not engage in organic certification.

For Pan Jiaen's point of view, the first is that the cost of certification is too high; in addition, universal confidence in the crisis is not necessarily an effective guarantee, and certification is not suitable for the small-scale peasant economy. The most important thing is that the “small donkey” is not willing to bypass the “community” and lose the opportunity to rebuild trust in urban and rural areas.

Repeated food safety incidents have made organic products gain the public's favor. Not only is the capital concerned, many local governments have also embraced it. Zhou Zejiang criticized that some townships even require that each village should have an organic certified product, and some counties have only developed 500 acres of organic agriculture, but reported that it was 2,000 acres. In order to achieve political performance, regardless of the needs of the development of organic agriculture Three-year land conversion period.

Perhaps too many counterfeits, the relevant departments set the most stringent certification standards. Zhou Zejiang believes that the starting point is to regulate the market, but it is not conducive to the development of organic agriculture. Especially for small farmers, it is simply not reached.

Yuan Yong, director of the Agricultural Technology Promotion Center in Dongxi Town, Jianyang City, Sichuan Province, believes that organic food certification not only requires high production environment, production process, and production materials, but also has high certification costs, as well as restrictions on production scale and business entities. Most of China’s agricultural production subjects, ordinary farmers, have refused.

The consequence of excessively high thresholds is that although farmers are willing to adopt organic farming methods, they may give up the path of organic farming because they have to bear additional environmental costs.

Yuan Yong believes that the “must be promoted in non-polluting areas to organic agriculture” also limits the development of organic agriculture.

"The development of organic agriculture should not place too much emphasis on certification, but should focus on changes in the mode of production." Yuan Yong said, "At present, there are support policies for organic food certification in various places, but generally after the success of producer certification is rewarded. In fact, the period with the greatest risk and the most input is the period of early transition, so to truly promote organic agriculture, we should increase funding and policy support during the transition period, that is, grant subsidies and start-up subsidies before certification.

In order to give full play to the role of organic agriculture in improving and protecting the environment, the government should also encourage organic farming methods, do not use production environment conditions as a limiting factor, and do not pass certification as the sole indicator, as long as farmers adopt organic farming methods and can respond to the local ecological environment. Protection contributes to support or reward. In this way, support for organic food certification and organic farming methods will be more conducive to the protection of the ecological environment and will be more conducive to the promotion of organic agriculture.

The British economist Sarah Hathaway said that the development of ecological agriculture in the UK will receive government subsidies, not only for producers, but also for land improvement. However, there is a standard that adopts organic production methods at least for at least five years. If other methods are used within five years, the government will recover subsidies and even pursue other liabilities.

Does organic farming bring about a reduction in production?

On the evening of March 3rd, a special exchange meeting took place in Honghu Town, Changshou District, Chongqing. One party to the exchange is an eco-agriculture expert and practitioner, and the other party is a cadre at all levels in Honghu Town. The exchange meeting that began at 19:00 took more than three hours, and the two sides exchanged ideas.

"Is there a lot of people starved to death in ecological agriculture?" This is a problem that many cadres in towns and towns are very worried about. In fact, this issue has also been debated within the agricultural sector.

Zhou Zejiang and eco-agricultural practitioners Gao Yicheng and Yuan Yong did not agree with this view. They believe that the output during the conversion period may decline, but after that, production will gradually increase. What's more, the share of organic agriculture in China is very limited. Even Denmark, the country with the highest proportion of organic agriculture in the world, is only 7%.

After graduating from university in 1994, Yuan Yong began teaching farmers to use chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Two years ago, he “completely denied what he had done in the past and began to supplement his work” and vigorously promoted organic agriculture. Now in Shuanghe Village, Dongxi Town, Jianyang County, Sichuan Province, organic rice is planted on more than 300 acres of paddy fields in addition to a single villager.

Yuan Yong said that it should be acknowledged that during the organic conversion period, the output of organic crops may be affected, but in the long run, once a benign organic agricultural production system is established, the output of organic production is not necessarily lower than that of conventional production. On the contrary, the productivity of the entire organic system will be higher than that of the conventional system.

Yuan Yong said that eco-agriculture is not suitable for large-scale planting of a single species. For example, the planting of fruits in Shuanghe Village is now interplanted and one species is planted every two mu of land. As long as the biological diversity is restored, a large area of ​​pests and diseases will not occur. In his opinion, some people who hold the view that “many people are starved to death without chemical fertilizers and pesticides” are because they do not understand, and because of the huge interest chain behind chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

However, a reality that should not be overlooked is that farmers have long relied on chemical pesticides and chemical fertilizers. They suddenly do not use chemical pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Farmers are psychologically unacceptable, and they lack systemic and applicable standards. Technology can hardly guarantee crop yields.

Yuan Yong believes that even if it is to reduce production, we must also objectively view the reduction in production, and we must not blindly fear production cuts. Because organic foods are 40% more nutritious than normal foods, even if they are reduced, they can already meet their needs. "Sometimes, the so-called development of science and technology is to solve the problems caused by human greed."

Organic farming is not a patent of the rich

At this exchange meeting, whether organic farming means that the patents of the rich have become the focus of another controversy.

Zhou Zejiang said: “Organic agriculture has four principles: health, ecology, fairness and care. Many people only consider health. Equity is very important. To benefit-sharing, it is not just the business people that benefit but the original producers who share the benefits. Caring for yourself, caring for future generations, but also caring for producers."

Zhou Zejiang said that according to data from environmental protection agencies, pollution from agricultural sources is greater than pollution from industrial sources, and the greatest harm is not to consumers but to farmers. When the farmers sprayed pesticides, the wind was blown by the farmers into the lungs.

Zhou Zejiang believes that farmers are the biggest beneficiaries of the development of ecological agriculture. Because of the health food produced, the farmers themselves will eat, and the land will be improved, and the ecological environment will change. Farmers will benefit first.

In Shuanghe Village, Dongxi Town, Jianyang City, Sichuan, this view has been gradually accepted by the villagers. The general rice in the market sells for 2 to 2.5 yuan, and the organic rice in Shuanghe Village will be sold at a new price, and rice will be sold at 5 to 6 yuan. In 2010, only 74 acres of farmland were planted with organic rice. The cooperative received a large order and went to the door to persuade the peasants to sell the organic rice and sell the original rice. However, many villagers were reluctant to leave sufficient food for themselves. Later, it took into consideration the development of the cooperative to "reluctantly cut off love."

“The increase in farmers’ income is a false proposition.” Yuan Yong made a shocking statement. “We hope to dispel the peasants’ desire to increase income through education. This is a paradox. Just a little bit, it is kind of gold. Can you harvest it? , but it can be mentally and physically healthy. So we now tell the farmers to plant organic crops first and then they must also eat them."

Yuan Yong said: “Agriculture originally had three functions, economic functions, social functions, and ecological functions. The latter was the most important, and now economic functions have become the most important.” He told the villagers that engaging in ecological agriculture was not for the first time. To make money, but for their own survival, to have a pure land at the foot.

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