Discussion On The Development Of Organic Agriculture Of China From The Perspective Of The Organic Certification System

The organic agriculture sector was currently the fastest growing agricultural sector. By minimizing the use of external inputs, avoiding the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides,etc,it has succeeded in solving the problems that occurred in the industrialized agriculture producing,such as the degradation of ecological environment,the drop of food quality and agricultural input and output benefits,and the surplus of agricultural product.The organic agriculture was also able to meet human beings diversified demands for the agricultural function after their physiological demands were satisfied basically. The remarkable information asymmetry existed in the organic agricultural product trade and had higher requests to the system. The production of organic agricultural product was superior to ordinary agricultural product in nutrition, safety and healthy because it was forbidden to use various kinds of agricultural chemicals and chemical fertilizers, etc. If organic authenticity of product could be guaranteed, consumers liked to buy it with higher price because of its fine quality, friendly environment and social fair, etc. Because of the limited organic agricultural production'input, high produce cost and low production, producers were needed to be compensated with higher price; difficult to distinguish organic produce with conventional ones from appearance and even prove organic authenticity of product through measuring. The organic agriculture'higher requests to the system were determined by characteristic of organic product. Furthermore, the organic agriculture has set up a whole set of authorization, inspection, certification label systems, and implementation mechanisms to realize its goal during pursuing maximum interest, so that it has shown its talents in numerous sustainable agriculture forms.Though China has potential comparative advantages of developing the organic agriculture in such aspects as natural resources, workforce resources and traditional agronomy technology, and the objective request for it, there were considerable disparities in the organic agriculture development level between the developed countries and China, and between the due level itself and China. Therefore, the potential advantages failed to turn into the realistic competition. The major reason was that organic agricultural identified procedure and implementation mechanism of China was imperfect. Though the identified rules of China were based on the rules of European Union and IFOAM, these standards were so low and imperfect that they were approved by mutual acceptance of the imported counties. The formal rules, informal rules and implementation mechanism were included in the system, the formal rules could be changed in a short time, but informal rules and implementation mechanism were progressive. The implementation cost of a system, which included the cost of weighing, supervising, implementing etc, is often very high. Only if formal rules were evolved into people's conscious behavior, could the implementation cost of a system be reduced and the system implemented effectively. However, the weak awareness of environment and law, and the emphasis on formulating rules instead of implementing made the cost of organic authentication system rise in China. This thesis analyzed the existing problems of organic agricultural development in China, learned the advanced international experiences and put forward the directional and feasible countermeasures and suggestions. This thesis is aimed at pushing forward the conception of organic agriculture, researching the production and management techniques of organic plantation, improving the supervision and administration of organic certification, constructing the mutual trust mechanism between the producer and consumer, developing organic industry in line with local conditions, establishing reasonable industry policy on organic agriculture, laying down practical development principle on organic food, improving and perfecting the administration system of organic organization.