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    Green barrier: agriculture is the "worry in worry"

    • Last Update: 2002-04-22
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Introduction: according to the survey, all interviewees agree that agriculture is the main concern in the face of "green barriers" In late December last year, five major American agricultural associations, including the Alaskan Seafood Market Association, the California almond Association, the California pistachio Association, the California Newcastle Growers Association, and the meat export association, jointly held an "American food festival" in the largest Jiayou supermarket in Zhejiang Province We sell 130 kinds of fresh products and processed food such as American beef and California almond In just over 10 days, the total retail sales of these American agricultural products in this supermarket reached 570000 yuan, of which the foreign fruits reached 163000 yuan, accounting for 32% of the total fruit sales of Jiayou supermarket; the sales of xinqishi orange alone were more than 6200 kg At the same time, the sales volume of local products competing in the same supermarket is limited Just a few days later, broccoli, a vegetable from Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, was found to be over standard in some of Japan's temporarily tightened tests, and its export was blocked Japan's tightened measures include batch inspection, which includes methamidophos, dichlorvos, chlorpyrifos, and cypermethrin The purchase price of broccoli in Taizhou fell to 0.6 yuan from 1.6 yuan each 14 related enterprises and tens of thousands of farmers with a planting area of 100000 Mu complained Many people in Zhejiang associate the two events as "a preview of the war against the" native and foreign agricultural products "after China's accession to the world trade organization." 9TB in the negotiation of China's accession to the world trade organization, China promised to completely cancel the export subsidies for agricultural products As we all know, in recent years, the domestic market of most agricultural products in our country tends to be saturated, and the voice of "difficult to sell" keeps rising Striving for foreign trade share and developing export-oriented agriculture is an important way to increase agricultural efficiency and farmers' income However, due to the low labor productivity and the limited level of science and technology, the cost of agricultural products in China is generally on the high side, and it is quite difficult to participate in international competition without the support of government subsidies The cost of corn production in Jilin is twice as high as that in the United States As soon as the state subsidies are weaned, it will fall into the dilemma of "not going out of Dalian port, not going into Shanhaiguan" 9TB From the perspective of the internal and external markets, green barriers to agricultural products are "worse than worse", which makes them suffer from three enemies: when their export competitiveness is weak, a green barrier is added, making it more difficult to export; while the so-called green barriers for foreign agricultural products to enter China's market do not exist, and they can drive straight into the domestic market, which is already saturated, and more powerful enemies It is understood that in recent years, the sales of dairy products in China has been weak, with milk powder overstocking over 70000 tons per year, and a large number of dairy enterprises' operating efficiency has declined, resulting in some cattle farms and farmers being forced to change production or even sell cattle At the same time, the number of imported dairy products has soared, reaching more than 100000 tons at present, an increase of half over 10 years ago 9TB compared with other industrial products, most agricultural products are food, and the environmental protection requirements of the international market are more stringent Therefore, green barriers are more "barriers" for agricultural products However, from the current situation, agricultural products are the most difficult goods in environmental protection in China This is another aspect of green barrier agriculture 9TB puts every link of the production process under the "green" monitoring Nowadays, many industrial products can not be completely achieved It is undoubtedly more difficult to fully achieve this in rural areas with a weaker awareness of environmental protection The green concept of agricultural production in China is still in its infancy Experts said that at present, there are only 2000 logo products using green food trademark in China, with a production capacity of about 15 million tons a year In general, the number is still small The reporter learned from Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, where 100000 mu of broccoli has encountered green barriers, that at the beginning of this year, the news came that Taizhou entry exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau, which originally undertook the task of sampling broccoli, was embarrassed by the fact that there was a gap between itself and Japan in terms of personnel, technology and equipment According to the old method, whether the product can pass the customs or not, the work progress will be very slow; if it is sent to Hangzhou for inspection, it will take 1 to 2 weeks for each batch As a result, a large number of broccoli were overstocked at the port for one week, which triggered a chain reaction: export enterprises were afraid to purchase broccoli, it was difficult to sell broccoli, and product prices fell Zhoushan City, which was returned for containing 0.2 g of chloramphenicol per billion of frozen shrimp, is also worried about the test Dai Beijun, director of Zhejiang Provincial Bureau of technical supervision, said frankly: this test data of the European Union can not be measured in China Therefore, he called for speeding up the reform of China's testing and inspection system, improving equipment, and preventing accidents in advance 9TB experts pointed out that the rules of the game in international trade are actually the rules of technical standards Whoever controls the technical standards will have the initiative to enter the market For a long time, our agriculture has only focused on the growth of quantity, the quality of agricultural products has not been placed in an important position, and the inspection system, standardization system and so on have been lagging behind the developed countries For example, the United States has nearly 60 certification systems, while China has not yet formed a unified certification system Especially in animal quarantine, China's delay in joining the international anti epidemic organization makes it very difficult to export live pigs, chickens and frozen meat This is equivalent to not getting tickets to the world market and being led by other people's green barriers Deqing County, Zhejiang Province is famous for producing early garden bamboo shoots, with an area of 170000 mu In recent years, Zaoyuan bamboo shoots have gradually formed the brand of "shangya'er" The county intends to make this brand bigger and become a model of green and pollution-free agricultural products However, it is very difficult to operate There are tens of thousands of farmers in the early garden bamboo shoot enterprises in the county All farmers call their products "Shanya" and the quality standards are hard to implement door-to-door Li, director of the county agriculture office, said: "as long as one of the many farmers has put the chemical fertilizer and pesticide products in it, the whole" shanya'er "brand of early garden shoots can not be considered to pass the customs." 9TB many experts pointed out that the low degree of organization of farmers' production and management is a fatal obstacle in the way of breaking green barriers for agricultural products The small production status of thousands of households makes the implementation of quality control and standards unable to be fully implemented More and more people realize that there are only two ways out for agriculture to cross the green barrier: one is to reduce farmers orderly in the process of urbanization and industrialization, the other is to improve the degree of organization and unite thousands of households 9TB
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