The Relevance of Agricultural Standardization

Agricultural standardization is an important cornerstone of modern agriculture. The practical experience of agricultural development at home and abroad shows that agricultural standardization is an effective way to promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into productivity, is to enhance the level of quality and safety of agricultural products, enhance the competitiveness of agricultural products in the market is an important guarantee, is to improve economic efficiency, increase the income of farmers and realize the basic prerequisite for the modernization of agriculture. Accelerate the process of agricultural standardization, is the new century and new stage to promote the strategic requirements of the agricultural industrial revolution.

Promoting agricultural standardization is the inevitable requirements of the strategic adjustment of the structure of agriculture and rural economy. The strategic adjustment of agricultural structure, one of the most important goal is to achieve the optimization of structure, improve quality and efficiency. To achieve this goal, a very important work is to vigorously promote agricultural standardization, including the standardization of agricultural production and processing, circulation. Agricultural standardization should be used to drive the specialization and regionalization of agricultural production, and thus promote the strategic structural adjustment of agriculture.

Promoting agricultural standardization is to ensure the quality of agricultural products and consumer safety is the basic premise. "People to food for heaven, food to safety first." In recent years, due to pesticide residues, veterinary drug residues and other toxic and hazardous substances exceeded the standard, resulting in the contamination of agricultural products and poisoning occurred from time to time, a serious threat to the general consumers' health and safety of life. An important prerequisite for solving the problem is to establish an agricultural product quality and safety standard system, inspection and testing system, and certification and accreditation system that are compatible with the stage of development of China's agricultural and rural productivity. In these three systems, agricultural quality and safety standards system has a fundamental role.

Promoting agricultural standardization is to promote the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements and promote the industrialization of the effective way. Science and technology is the first productive force. Agricultural standardization both from agricultural science and technology innovation, but also agricultural science and technology innovation into real productivity carrier. Scientific and technological achievements into standards, can exponentially increase the coverage of the popularization and application. At the same time, the improvement of standards will promote scientific and technological innovation. Agricultural industrialization is an important form of organization to promote the development of agriculture and rural economy in the new period. The implementation process of agricultural industrialization is not only the process of standardization of agricultural production, processing and circulation behaviors, but also the process of regulating the production behaviors of tens of thousands of farmers and coping with the ever-changing market of agricultural products. Without the standardization of agriculture, it is difficult to achieve the industrialization of agriculture.

Agricultural standardization is to enhance the international competitiveness of agricultural products and regulate the import and export of agricultural products is an important means. After China's accession to the WTO, the price advantage in the international market by the challenge of safety standards. 2002, 90% of China's agricultural exports, to varying degrees by the impact of foreign technical barriers. At the same time, due to China's standard "threshold" low, coupled with weak detection capacity, objectively for foreign agricultural products to enter our market in large quantities to provide convenience. In this situation, accelerate the establishment of international norms and food safety in line with the agricultural standardization system, so that its role in expanding exports, regulating imports, has become a priority.

Promoting agricultural standardization is a realistic choice for building modern agriculture. Agricultural standardization is an important symbol of modern agriculture. Accelerate the implementation of agricultural standardization, is to promote and facilitate the construction of modern agriculture is an important force. Modern agriculture, not only requires varieties of agricultural products to be standardized, agricultural production technology standardization, agricultural production management should also be standardized, but also requires agricultural market norms, rural economic information construction should also be standardized. The process of building modern agriculture is also, to some extent, the process of agricultural standardization, the process of agricultural information and the process of agricultural marketization. Without the standardization of agriculture, we can not talk about building modern agriculture.