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Organic Booming in China
Organic farming is growing at around 50% a year in China, as a lot more consumers are growing wary of chemicals and sprays and adulterants in their food. The government is also encouraging it, in part to create new income producing opportunities for their vast rural population that is falling way behind the urban manufacturing based populations, and also in part as part of their push for just being "more green", as with renewable resources and alternative energy projects.
"BEIJING: For a country so enamoured of biotechnology and a recognised leader in genetically modified crops research, China is experiencing an organic farming boom. While the surge is mainly fuelled by increased overseas demand, the domestic market is playing a role too. Chinese urbanities have developed a genuine fondness for fresh organic produce — grown particularly in reclaimed wastelands like the Great Northern Wilderness in the northeast and believed to be uniquely free of fertilisers and pesticides."...more fresh tastes better, too, there