Study On The Impact Of Price Factor And Non-Price Factor On The Competitiveness Of China's Soybean

There exit many research literatures about competitiveness of farm produce, which utilize different methods and angles, but to improve competitiveness is the common goal of such studies. Soybean, as the major crop in northeastern China, is the main source of peasants' income. According to an investigation made in producing area, price change has a great impact on peasants' revenue.Prior to the opening up of edible-oil market, the supply shortage in costal provinces can be satisfied by purchasing soybean form northeast. Accompanying the development of social economy and increasing demand for oil-used soybean and trade-policy change in farm produce, imported soybean ,with its low price and high oil-containing supplant the northeastern soybean as the new supplier for coastal areas. The oversupply in northeastern market push down the soybean price and depress the increase of peasants revenue, the so called "new-northeastern phenomenon" arises against such background. In the process of transition from planning economy to market-oriented one ,large sums of state-owned enterprises(SOEs) face many difficulties because of fierce competition and lack of viability. In such circumstances, it is very hard for northeastern areas to shoulder agricultural losses.The soybean-producing area in northeaster China has the same excellent planting condition as other soybean-producing countries in the world. However ,the result is the international soybean was imported into the domestic market in large amount. The paper focuses on the introduction into production and trade condition of soybean at home and abroad. The effect of price and non-price factor on competitiveness was analyzed in detail by econometric and descriptive means. On the basis of above analysis ,we aim to improve the competitiveness of domestic soybean and to increase peasants' income.This paper indicate that transportation cost is one the greatly affect the circulation radius of northeastern soybean(NS).Without such cost, NS can reach southern market with lower price than imported soybean. NS is heavily loaded with extra-cost expenditure, which is called agricultural taxes and .If such extra-cost expenditure is reduced ,wholesale price of domestic soybean will decrease by 400RMB per ton. Thus, the domestic soybean ,originally with higher price, can be lower imported soybean and its competitiveness can be dramatically enhanced. On the other hand .most of the imported soybean in nature is genetically modified , so it is not warmly welcomed in domestic market. So we can limit the import of soybean or increase the importing cost with the excuse of respecting consumers right to know an to choose.