Empirical Study On The Development Of Agri-organization In Weifang City

The innovation of organizational modes has always been a powerful driving force for the development of agriculture and rural production in our country. Though policy-barriers on agricultural and rural development have already been removed in recent years, agriculture is still progressing in hesitation for a long period of time, due to the lack of further breakthroughs in the modes of organizations, after the adoption of the household contracting responsibility system. Tapping income increase potentials within agriculture is the key to the development of agriculture in our country. Weifang, a city without rich natural resources, has become a good proof in the release of unprecedented vigor and vitality with a basic system and systematic elements of a modern agriculture by relying on the promotion of organizations in the transformation of traditional agriculture.Taking an example of the practical situation and practice in the city of Weifang, Shandong province, this study conducts an empirical research on the development of agricultural organizations, through interviews, visits and investigations, adopting qualitative as well as quantitative methods. The study holds that the essence of the agri-organization in Weifang is in the mobilization of broad households into large-scale socialized productions to become rich collectively by professional production, large-scale businesses, running group management as well as by exerting the functions of leading enterprises, specialized cooperative organizations and socialized service systems of the government.The study finds out that the main types of such agri-organizations include leading enterprise-driven, market-driven, cooperative organization-driven, major specialized household-driven, science and technology-garden-driven, agri-association-driven and agri-enterprise-professional service-driven. With these types of agri-organizations, governments at various levels only focus on the innovation and standardization of agri-organizations,setting-up of chained agri-industries, provision of land, financial support, planning, science & technology, information, market and the services of quality inspection and epidemic prevention in stead of pressing for harvesting and planting. The study shows that with the adoption of such agri-organizations, large-scale specialized production has been formed, income from major industries is comparatively balanced, gap of income between urban and rural areas is not big, agri-growing and breeding is well developed with surplus labor being properly allocated, thus creating a situation of farms being collectively rich and the society being harmonious. The study arrives at major conclusions that the agri-organizations in Weifang are the joint creation of policy-makers and large number of farmers, which is the only way to develop modern agriculture and is of great significance on the road to a modernized countryside with Chinese characteristics, foreboding a splendid future for a new socialist countryside.Through analyzing the practical situation of Weifang, this paper points out the existing problems in promoting agri-organizations including that the driving power of some leading enterprises is not strong, and the relationship with farmers'common interest groups is not close; the innovative ability of enterprises in science and technology is weak, and the transformation of scientific achievements is slow; the ability of processing and transforming agricultural products is relatively weak, and the advantage of resources has not been brought into full play; the characteristic of"big community and small scale"in the construction of market system is obvious, some markets are of small scale, low level, severe separation and weak combination, the degree of social organization is low; the organizations of agricultural cooperation are not normative, some economic cooperative organizations are of small scale, weak economic power and weak service function. Meanwhile, correspondent strategies and suggestions of promoting organization upgrading are put forward, including making good planning and arrangement and insisting on overall development; vitalizing the mechanism of operation and developing diverse forms of communities of interests; transforming the functions of government and establishing the system of joint conference of agri-organization; enhancing the intensity of supporting policies and assisting the development of agricultural cooperative institutions; reinforcing popularization and emphasizing the training of theories and technologies of cooperation among grass-roots cadres, members of cooperative institutions and peasants. All the above suggestions are aimed to consolidate and develop the achievements and offer revelations and references for solving the issue of agriculture, rural areas and farmers.