Market Supply Of Agricultural Products And Countermeasures In Beijing

There is an old saying,‘Bread is the staff of life and to the foodstuff, safe is all-important’.Therefore, the food safety is a vital work involving in people’s likelihood. In Beijing, the agriculturalproduct is a hot topic in people’s daily life. The stable market price, sufficient and safe products are thebasic condition for people’s well-off life, meanwhile, they are the key point which is concerned by thegovernment and the inevitable requirement of constructing harmonious society. Producers reflect thatthe agricultural product sales are very hard, and the market price is relatively low, on the other hand, theconsumers complain of the high price. One of the most important reasons is that the supply system ofthe agricultural products market is imperfect.On the basis of reviewing and studying the basic theories and comments at home and abroad, thepaper analysis current status in the produce, market supply of the agricultural products in Beijing. Thefeature of the urban agriculture becomes outstanding gradually. The livestock products realize the largescale production. The culture of the aquatic products realizes the standardization. The government ofBeijing also constructs the agricultural products base operating by the co-government.Beijing is an oversize consumption city which has nearly20million people, it’s consumption ofagricultural byproducts has reached100billion Yuan per year. Nowadays, Beijing’s market has formedthe maximum circulation pattern. According to statistics,80%products are from other districts and20%from suburbs.In current circulation channels,70%market sales is from wholesale markets,20%fromsupermarkets, and10%from other channels such as universities, residents, government organizations,state-owned enterprises, public institutions, and business hotels, etc.The main restricted factors: Lake of land and water resources, low comparative benefit, not formthe industry chain, hard control of the vegetable safety, etc. Also, there are other problems should bepaid attention to: low productivity of vegetable and low supply in local; lake of self-exam policy, andhard control of quality and safety of agricultural products from other districts; high circulation cost andasymmetric information of supply and demand.Through the questionnaires, the paper has shown us the satisfaction of the residents towardsagricultural products market and the knowledge of the quality and safety of agricultural products. Thepaper put forward series countermeasures: To enlarge the areas of vegetable fields appropriately, todevelop vegetable facility cultivation vigorously, to consummate the subsidies policies of vegetableproduction, to cultivate specialized cooperatives of vegetable industry actively; to regulate the input ofchemical substances strictly; to extend the wholesale markets of agricultural products, and so on.