Organic? No, but almost

Martin Dabilly says that raspberries he grows at his family-run Meiming Raspberry Farm in Songming county are safe to eat without washing, but he refuses to promote his fruits as organic.

"I don't believe in organic (agriculture)," he told China Daily, switching from fluent Mandarin to not-so-fluent English. "I think it's expensive, useless. I believe in sustainable agriculture. I know fertilizer. Fertilizer is nothing bad."

He can calculate how much fertilizer a raspberry plant needs, and says he can put the right amount of fertilizer into the soil and make the plant healthy. What's wrong with the fruit growth in China is that farmers tend to apply too much fertilizer and pesticide to their fruits and to the soil, he said.