The Study On The Present Vegetable Industrial Situation And The Related Countermeasures After Entering WTO In Yantai Municipality

Because of the advantages of climate and bargain labor force, the production cost and price of vegetables in our country have evident advantages in competition in the international market. Yantai Municipality is located in the east of Jiaodong Peninsula, where the fertile field and temperate climate are suitable for the planting of various kinds of vegetables. It has great developing potentialities in such aspects as science and technology, the climate condition, the geographic location, the market prospects. Unfortunately, the vegetable industry in Yantai Municipality started later than Shouguang and other counties or cities. There are also a series of problems in the production, such as variety degeneration, lower content of technology, slower industrialization process, unbalanced supplying for all year round, poorer product quality, and so on. The industry of vegetable processing in Yantai Municipality is comparatively developed. Entering WTO offers Yantai Municipality with new opportunities for its vegetable exporting processing.By means of questionnaire surveying and on-the-spot investigating, visiting experts, government departments, heading enterprises, and checking materials, the article has made a thorough understanding and major investigation about the present situation of rural and urban vegetable production in Yantai Municipality as to the vegetable managing form in rural and urban areas, the peasants' consciousness and habits, the effects of WTO on local vegetable production, and so on. By comparatively analyzing the data of vegetable export trade in Yantai Municipality before and after entering WTO, as well as thoroughly analyzing the present situation and existing problems in vegetable production and vegetable industry in rural and urban Yantai Municipality, it has found out the main restricting factors for giving full play to the advantages of vegetable industry of our Municipality: first is the smaller production scale, second is the poorer product quality, third is fewer famous bands and fourth is inadequate market opening up. By analyzing the effects to the vegetable production and processing trade of Yantai Municipality after entering WTO, it puts forward corresponding ways for the development of vegetable industry in Yantai Municipality: strengthen the peasants' scientific and technological and market consciousness, change the old habits, fasten rural vegetable development, lead correctly to greater investment, improve the breed structure, strengthen the scientific and technological training, extend advanced producing and planting technology, strengthen the market construction, set up industrial band for superior agricultural products, and so on...