A Study On Situation And Countermeasures Of Tianjin Vegetable Seed Industry Development

There's an old saying in Chinese, stating that 'food is the primary and priority needs for common people, as plantation is for agriculture'. Quality seed is the carrier of agricultural sciences and technology; it is the root cause for quantity and quality of crops yield; it is of important guarantee for a high, stable and quality yield. The industrialization of quality seeds is an important fountain source and pulling force for restructuring agribusiness. As a priority-constructed industry in the process of establishing a fast growing coastal peri-urban agriculture, the quality vegetable seeds industry of Tianjin is highly competitive on domestic market, bringing billions of annual sales income and playing a key role in restructuring agribusiness, improving production efficiency, increasing farmer's income and enhancing competitive power of agri-products.Following the growing economic globalization, two distinctions have been manifested themselves, namely, enhanced technology innovation capability and business clustering. China is the biggest vegetable production country, hence the biggest vegetable seeds customers around the globe. The tremendous potential and enormous room for profits have been attracting numerous seed corporations with international reputation to march on Chinese market, thus exacerbating the already fierce competition. After China's accession into WTO, Chinese seed industry is facing a whole new environment, making itself subject to double competitive forces, domestic as well as international ones. For Tianjin's vegetable seed industry, how to continuously enlarge and strengthen its business and how to maximize its strengths meanwhile minimize its weaknesses are key issues responding to the challenges.With a research approach of principles combined with practices, and analyzing with both qualitative and quantitative methods, on the base of reviewing the status quo, the author systematically studied and summarized the main problems confronting Tianjin 's vegetable seed industry. Meanwhile, the current situations and constraining elements were analyzed, from which the developing countermeasures and recommendations were formulated and proposed. The detailed measures include, 1) Tianjin Municipal People's Government should reinforce the power of adjustment and control and provide any policy support necessary for a sound-developed industry; 2) formulating and implementing the personnel development strategies for this industry; 3) speeding up the construction of seed information infrastructure and networks through playing the advantages of information into full; 3) enlarging the size of extant seed group corporations to enhance the overall level and capacity; 4) establishing the sub-associations based on varieties; 5) establishing a proposed Tianjin Seed Trade Association, with the objective of fostering communication and cooperation between farmers and seed production firms; 6) strengthening the seed breeding research and development through employing the most up-to-date biotechnology, hence satisfying the diversified market demands; 7) upgrading marketing ideas and strategies to improve the market competitive power of seed production firms.