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Organic farming and organic foods have become popular concepts over theselast few years. Now, with domestic and overseas demands for organic food,organic farming has become a booming sub industry ( http://www.agriculture-supplier.com/products/). People in China are keeping apace with theiroverseas counterparts, moving away from unhealthy foods and highlighting theirconcerns over potentially contaminated produce.
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According to the Agriculture Ministry of China, in 2007, the domesticconsumption value of organic food rose to 38 billion US dollars, while theexport value was over 3 billion US dollars. Chinese farmers produced 20,000kinds of organic food, or around 1440 million tons, with 72 million tons offood with the label of Green Foods ( http://www.agriculture-supplier.com/buying_leads/ ) and some 20 million tons of food given theOrganic Food (http://www.agriculture-supplier.com/quality_products/)Certification.
Organic food trade has given a tremendous cake to global traders, althoughChinese farmers developed a catalog of only 200 hundred healthy, organic foods,Chinese organic food imports continue to be promising.
Asian countries are setting themselves up as hub for organic food exports.China, Thailand, Vietnam and Japan are all playing important roles inimproving the world's organic food trade and its development of organicfarming.
SOURCE tootoo.com
