Title: Are the agricultural products you eat safe? From the farmers' agricultural production methods

　　Speaker: Hu Ruifa (Department of Applied Economics)

　　Time: Tuesday, May 15th, 2018, 12:00-13:00

　　Venue: Meeting Room 418, Main Building

　　Speaker Profile:

　　Hu Ruifa: PhD, Distinguished Professor of Beijing Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Supervisor, National "Outstanding Youth Fund" winner, selected Chinese Academy of Sciences "Hundred Talents Program", and the Ministry of Agriculture "Outstanding contributions of young and middle-aged experts." He is mainly engaged in the development of economic and agricultural technology and economic research. Research directions include science and technology and development policies, agricultural emission reduction, agricultural resources and environmental economics. He has published nearly 300 academic papers in important academic journals at home and abroad, including dozens of SCI/SSCI papers including two Science and three Nature Biotechnology papers. By the end of 2016, nearly 1300 references have been cited in the journals published by SCI/SSCI. In 2004, he was supported by the National Outstanding Youth Fund Project and became the fourth young economist in the field of agricultural economics in China. He has won 7 provincial and ministerial awards such as the first prize for scientific and technological progress in the Ministry of Agriculture, and 16 other awards. Twenty-three of the policy advisory reports submitted to the national leaders since 2003 have been approved by the party and state leaders Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao, Hui Liangyu, Wang Qishan, Liu Yandong, and Li Yuanchao, respectively, resulting in greate policy influence. .

　　Brief introduction:

　　Is the agricultural product you eat safe? Prof. Hu Ruifa will, based on his many years of research on farmer's agricultural production, introduce the three-year follow-up observations of farmers' agricultural production on the basis of introducing the current production methods of Chinese farmers; By examining different pesticides and farmers’ physical health examinations, analyzed the impact of different types of pesticides on the health of farmers.

　　(Contractor: Department of Applied Economics, Scientific Research and Academic Exchange Center)