Study On Conflicts Of Interests Over Agricultural Product Prices From Farmers’ Perspective Under Low-carbon Mode

With the reform of China’s economic development mode, the issue oftransformation has drawn extensive attention from academia and the practicecommunity. The traditional mode of extensive economic growth centering on GDP andfeaturing energy consumption growth has become increasingly restricted by the dualbottleneck of resources and energy. Low-carbon mode is exactly an optimal choice ofeconomic development and transformation in this context. Low-carbon transformationin traditional agricultural fields has created a great opportunity for and posed a greaterchallenge to China’s agricultural development. Low-carbon agricultural developmentwill transform in a more ecological and healthy direction, which needs all links andparties in the whole industry chain to actively change ideas of production, operation andconsumption.However, conflicts of interests have been in existence in the agricultural productprice system and will still exist under low-carbon mode. Particularly, such conflicts aremore prominent in agricultural Product prices.In the agricultural Product price system under low-carbon mode, in the processof pursuing own interest maximization, all subjects involved maximize interests on avoluntary, equal and mutual beneficial basis, with the common interests of two or moreparties as bonds. However, in diversified industry chains predominated by farmers,middlemen, consumers and the government, there are both common interests andindividual interests of parties involved, thus apparent conflicts of interests between twoor more parties will be unavoidable in the process of pursuing own interestmaximization.This text is intended to enhancing the actualities of farmers (farmers are assumedas micro organizations) as “interest onlookers”(disadvantaged without the right ofspeech on market), starts from the theory of conflicts of interests, uses regressionanalysis, game theory and the incomplete information theory in information economicsas the theoretical basis of study, identifies and conducts a correlative hypothesis ofinterested parties in the agricultural Product price system under low-carbon mode,conducts a correlative analysis, and conducts a game analysis of equilibrium points of interest demands of all parties on this basis. This text combines qualitative analysis andquantitative analysis, and constructs a framework for mitigating conflicts of interests byanalyzing conflicts among interested parties in the agricultural product price system.Additionally, this text introduces market subject the government as the third party todiscuss its paths of balanced regulation and preferential support among interestedparties, thereby mitigating conflicts among interested parties.