Tag: Beijing

  • New Model of Organic Farming Sprouting in Chinese Suburbs

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    By Wan Su: Caixin Online Farmers are contracting with customers to provide a year’s worth of produce, an approach one academic says could be viable. (Beijing) – A new model of locally organized organic farming has taken root in Beijing and Shanghai in recent years, and an academic says it could be a viable way…

  • And you thought it was bad here

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    From Ally Bruschi’s article in The Daily Mail: Endless food scandals throughout the past few years have Chinese consumers growing suspicious and weary of their grocery store produce —enough so for more well-off families to begin seeking organic alternatives to their traditional foods. For example, Catherine Ho Wai-man and her family have stopped buying produce from…