Research On The Role Of Government For Vegetable Production Quality And Safety Management In Suzhou

Great efforts are needed to enhance vegetable quality and safety as the social andeconomic development and the spreading of safety and quality. Current status ofvegetable quality and safety is still not able to respond to the need for public.Government departments should take responsibility for controlling vegetable productionsafety.In order to guard quality and safety of vegetable production, Suzhou hasestablished legal system framework for vegetable quality and safety supervision andmanagement, specialized management agencies to take charge of vegetable safety.Testing and measuring system of the agriculture product quality, traceability system ofvegetable products, quality certification system of agricultural products has beenconstantly improved and agricultural subsidy program has been started. What Suzhougovernment have done achieved obvious result. Also, we particularly investigated fivemajor issues relevant to vegetable quality and safety management: lack of managementconcept of source control and risk management, lack of extension system for vegetablequality and safety, the incomplete mechanism of financial subsidies for agriculturaloutput quality and safety, the faultiness in the vegetable quality and safety standardssystem, the low degree of vegetable production organization. Finally, we proposed fivemeasures in order to improve the vegetable quality and safety management in Suzhou:Founding all-around system of risk management for vegetable production, establishingextension system for vegetable quality and safety, improving vegetable quality andsafety standards system, increasing the degree of vegetable production organization.