An Analsis On Farmer Cooeratives’ Behaviors In Implementing Agricultural Standardization

The domestic and foreign agricultural development experience shows that agriculturalstandardization as an important sign of the agricultural modernization is very important to advanceagricultural industrialization, ensure agro-food quality and safety, and solve the problems facingagriculture, rural areas and farmers. The Party and government attach great importance to agriculturalstandardization. But there are still many obstacles to the implementation of the agricultural standards,which affect the performance of the agricultural standardization. To analyze the factors which influencethe implementation of the agricultural standardization, it is very important to study from the perspectiveof the subject of agricultural standardization implementation. With the rapid development of farmercooperatives in China, cooperative has become a very important subject of agricultural standardizationimplementation. However, there are few studies on farmer cooperatives’ behaviors in implementingagricultural standardization. So, this study chooses farmer cooperatives as the object of study, andanalyzes its behaviors and factors influencing agricultural standardization implementation.Based on the overseas and domestic literature and data analysis, this study discusses the researchstatus at home and abroad and the history and the development status of agricultural standardizationimplementation and farmer cooperatives, which provides a theoretical and practical basis for furtherresearch. In order to analyze the farmer cooperatives’ behaviors in implementing agriculturalstandardization, this study took the apple cooperatives of Shaanxi as the specific object of study andcarried questionnaire survey on the114apple cooperatives in Xunyi, Luochuan, Baishui and Fengxiangin Shaanxi Province. First, this article summed up the main characteristics on the behaviors inimplementing agricultural standardization of the apple cooperatives by descriptive statistics analysis. Onthis basis, this study analyzed the internal and external factors influencing farmer cooperatives’behaviors in implementing agricultural standardization by Logistic regression. The results shows thatoperation mode, planting scale, the number of members and internal control degree are the four mostimportant internal factors, otherwise the principle of higher prices for better quality products is the mostimportant external factor.Through the above analysis, the apple cooperatives’ agricultural standardization implementation ofShaanxi Province has made some progress. The support of the government is very significant for thecooperatives to implement agricultural standardization. And the drive to the cooperatives from theenterprise is also significant to agricultural standardization implementation. But in the process ofimplementing agricultural standardization, the money and the market are the important difficulties to thecooperatives.Finally, based on the conclusion, this study put forward some suggestions for the cooperatives toimplement agricultural standardization. Such as strengthen the support of the government, broaden thefinancing channels to solve the problem of funds, perfect agricultural materials market and sales marketof agricultural products, encourage the enterprise to promote the cooperative and perfect agriculturalproduct inspection testing system.