Study On Government Regulation And Farmer's Production Behaviour Based On Food Safety

As the consumptive necessary of people's living, the quality and safety degree of Agro-product directly affect people's life health and life quality. On the one hand, going with the economical development of our country, the improving of people's standard of living, consumer pay more and more attention to the quality and safety of agro-product, the demand to high quality and safety agro-product is increasing. On the other hand, because the dissymmetry of quality information between the producer and consumer, producer adopt the production behavior that disobeying regulations easily driving by benefit incentive, and flood the safety agro-product market with the common or low quality agro-product. The market failure because the dissymmetry of quality information between the producer and consumer, market economy can not solve the quality and safety of agro-product problem because of the market failure by itself, must depend on the government's participating to make up the shortage of market adjust. So government need induct, supervise and manage the production behaviors of farmer getting across establish policy to ensure the quality and safety of agro-product. The research spread the analysis enclosing the connection between the government regulation and the farmer's production behavior, by using the basic economic theories as well as the relevant principles of environmental economy, institutional economy and information economy, methods of macroscopy and microscopy, empirical and normative researches, qualitative and quantitative analysis, this paper reveals the effect of government regulation to the farmer's production behavior. The results have important significance of theory and practice in the aspects of perfecting the government regulation to quality and safety of agro-product.Based on the relative researches of Chinese and foreign, this paper expatiates the situation and effectible factors of quality and safety of agro-product, proves up the effect to quality and safety of agro-product of government regulation and farmer's production behavior; analyses the function, situation and existent problems of the government regulation of quality and safety of agro-product in our country; anatomises the connection between the government regulation and farmer's production behavior deeply from the theoretics point of view, it opens out that the government regulation should start with attracting the producer of common agro-products to attend the production of pollution-free agricultural product and keeping away the moral hazard of the producer of pollution-free agricultural product synchronously; on this basis, by using the farmer households data gained from field survey and empirical research, this paper analyses the factors that affect the farmer's willingness to choose to produce pollution-free vegetable and the moral hazard behavior in the production of pollution-free vegetable; finally, by summarizing the experiences of government regulation of quality and safety of agro-product in developed country, it puts forward the suggestion that enhancing the government regulation of quality and safety of agro-product. This paper is composed with nine chapters. The major contents of each part are as follows:Chapter one, introduction. On the basis of introducing background of the research brings forward the research question, definitudes the purpose and meaning of this research, expatiated base frame and major contents, research methods and data resources, discusses the possible innovation and shortcoming.Chapter two, literature summarization and theories base. Firstly, by reviewing the literature of Chinese and foreign, points out the using for reference and the existent shortage, on this basis puts forward the thought of the paper. Secondly, analyses the market failure theory, government regulation theory and farmer's production behavior theory, combines this research's content to make clear the relationship of the three theories.Chapter three, the situation and effectible factors of quality and safety of agro-product. The situation of quality and safety of agro-product in our country is up and up from the checking results, but the gusty events of quality and safety of agro-product occurred frequently, and the technical barriers to trade effected the export of agro-product awfully. From producer's point of view review the factors that affect the quality and safety of agro-product mostly have environment factors, technology factors, system factors and economic factors, the environment factors not only are restricted by nature condition, but also are affected by technology factors, system factors and economic factors, and that the technology factors lie on the farmer's production behavior, the farmer's production behavior are affected not only by economic factors,but also by the system factors, this paper study the problem of quality safety of agro-products mainly to start with the farmer's production behavior and government regulation.Chapter four, The function, situation and existent problems of the government regulation of quality and safety of agro-product in our country. government Regulation have protective function to the quality and safety of agro-product. The government make a lot of work in strengthening the regulation of quality and safety of agro-product in our country, gained some effect in building administrant institution, demonstration and generalizing system, law and code system, standard system, attestation system and inspection system. But because the government regulation of quality and safety of agro-product is not perfect in our country, exist many problems in building, it need more enhancement.Chapter five, academic analysis of the government regulation and the farmer's production behavior. Academic analysis indicate that if wanting to make the farmer's aim of most avail to accord with the government's aim of most social welfare, must satisfy the participation constraint and incentive compatibility constraint simultaneously, on the one hand, need encourage farmers to attend the production of pollution-free agricultural product, on the other hand, need keep away the production behavior of pollution-free agricultural product. The extra income by engaging moral hazard, the income of nonparticipating attestation, the future income discount, the income of standard production, the fine to disobey the standard and the monitor of government can effect the degree of moral hazard. The further research reveal as the principal, the degree of government monitoring farmer production can influence the degree of other factors affecting moral hazard.Chapter six, the analysis of the factors which influenced the farmer's willingness to produce pollution-free vegetable. The results indicate: though most of the farmers have heard about pollution-free vegetable, but the degree of understanding is low. The potential willing to produce is existent. In the factors that affect the willingness to produce pollution-free vegetable, the education in the farmer's unit diagnostic, the family scale in the farmer's family diagnostic, the income level and the opportunity cost of labour in the farmer's economy diagnostic, the contact with agriculture cooperating organization and the degree of understanding are the mostly influencing factors.Chapter seven, the analysis of the factors which influenced the farmer's moral hazard behavior in producing pollution-free vegetable. The results indicate: Some of the producers of pollution-free vegetable didn't plant in term of the standard of pollution-free vegetable. The sex in the farmer's unit diagnostic, the family configuration, planting areas and the proportion of pollution-free vegetable income in the farmer's family diagnostic, the quality control education and agricultural cooperate organization in the farmer's production diagnostic, the degree of commodity, the afraid of food safety, the realizing degree of monitoring and punishment of disobeying the standard are the mostly factors to effect the moral hazard behavior of the producers. In the region dummy variables, the north of Jiangsu is easier to happen moral hazard behaviors than the middle of Jiangsu, the south of Jiangsu is reverse.Chapter eight, the system of the regulation of quality and safety of agro-product of the developed countries and the experiences. Introduce the system of the regulation of quality and safety of agro-product of America, Europe and Japan detailedly, summarize their experiences in perfecting the management system of quality safety of agro-products, perfecting the law and code system of quality safety of agro-products, pushing whole management system from the field to table, regarding the risk management of quality safety of agro-products, establishing traceability system of quality safety of agro-products, they can be use for reference by our country to advance the level of regulation.Chapter nine, the policy advice which can strengthen the government regulation of quality and safety of agro-product in our country. On the basis of ahead research, bring forward the policy advice from the microcosmic lay which are to attract the producer of common agro-products to attend the production of pollution-free vegetable and keep away the moral hazard of the producer of pollution-free vegetable, bring forward the policy advice from the macrocosmic lay which is to perfect the system of government regulation of quality and safety of agro-product.