Research On The Development Of Multi-functional Agriculture In Fujian

The concept of multi-functional agriculture first appeared in 1990s, which was put forward by Japan for protecting its "rice culture", later won the support from Korea and eu countries, which all agreed that agriculture is multifunctional, so it is possible to give agriculture extra subsidy. However, this formulation was opposed by USA and Cairns Group. Thereafter the concept of multi-functional agriculture appeared in many documents like "Agenda 21 "and "Declaration of Rome", so the research on multi-functional agriculture by every country began.During recent years, the understanding of the versatility of agriculture gradually deepened, some areas carried out many useful attempts on the development of multi-functional agriculture, but on the whole, it was still at the starting and exploring stage, the function of agriculture is still single. As to the production function, it put emphases on commodity production, and it didn't pay enough attention on nonproductive function.This research analyzed the superiority and inferiority of developing multi-functional agriculture, as well the chances and threat in Fujian province by using SWOT analysis, and it obtained the conclusion that compared to other areas, the most outstanding advantage to develop multi-functional agriculture is the advantage to Taiwan. Then this research tried to study the value of multi-functional agriculture in Fujian with the quantitative method. Each specific function of multi-functional agriculture was studied, the value of productive function and the input in agriculture from Fujian province was analyzed with co-integration analysis method, and some conclusions were made. Moreover, the research compared the value of Fujian multi-functional agriculture with other related provinces. Finally, according to the reality in Fujian, some countermeasures and suggestions were put forward to the development of multi-functional agriculture in Fujian for reference to relevant departments.