into the WTO above China's farming impact? What are the opportunities and challenges facing? With these questions, we have partook in agricultural assignment apt the United States in 2000, May 20-June 2, studied in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, in Nevada, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hawaii and other U.S. stuff Department of agricultural production, processing and bargains.
1 land wealthy in resources, labor deficit and land area of 9.633 million U.S. km2, in dozens of hours of ventilation travel, you can see that the U.S. land resources are very rich. However, decreasing agricultural population, along to recent statistics, the agricultural population accounted for only about 3% of the population that the United States 300 million population, agricultural population is only about 9 million, this 3% of the population of the country to provide agro-food, but also a large number of agricultural exports, imports accounted for 20% of the vegetables.
China and the U.S. In contrast, absence of arable land resources, labor abundant. Joined WTO in like of labor-intensive exports, agricultural production is facing a excellent chance.
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scale production of vegetables in the United States visit the New Jersey farms, vegetable processing plants, universities, visited California, Los Angeles, suburban vegetable cultivation land. Because the U.S. highways, highway about 60 million km, the total width of highways of the earth 3 / 4, transportation is very convenient, vegetables regional production, less protected, tall degree of mechanization. Whether in California, Florida and other major vegetable production base, or a small number, only 2% of vegetable production in New Jersey, are large-scale production of vegetable production according the highway, there have been large tracts of sweet corn, cabbage , planting lettuce fields, even the small varieties of vegetables and strawberries, in suburban Los Angeles also saw several acres of land adjacent planting. New Jersey, a farmer planted 60-80hm2 (150 至 200 acres) of vegetables, year earnings of up to 20 000 -10 million.
counting, the U.S. expressway to our left a deep impression, in addition to the Nevada desert, we voyage the highway the middle of the broad green belt on both sides of a large jungle stand, nevertheless the order is not correct, but patchwork, high trees, among shrubs, vines, under the green grass, is the aboriginal normal communities, rare to see bare soil, as whether into the original forest, he could feel the waves of scent , the explosions of birds constantly, constantly painted roadside signs of beasts such as deer visible signs warning drivers of this team with a deer, be cautious driving. American Forests cover almost 60%, the U.S. general architecture of multi-storey housing is made of lumber, lumber volume, but the use of all timber imported from Canada, the Canadian distributor of timber exports.
present, our country attaches great magnitude to forestry and landscaping, I trust that after hours, the country is a fine spring day urban and rustic areas.
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vegetable processing industry developed in New Jersey, visited a small, a large vegetable processing plants. Small plants routinely 2-3 farmers from the Liaison Office, equipment, scale are small, the harvest of vegetables sorting, packaging, unlock the vacuum among the processor cool (5 ℃) and the cutback of water surface of vegetables, and then transported to the wholesale market. Frozen processing plant is a large household commerce, has l00 years of history, a aggregate of 500 people, processing vegetables, 40,824,000 kg (9000 pounds), the factory has a large harvesters, farmers harvested instantly vegetables such as spinach harvest machine, you can harvest the leaves of spinach,
GHD IV Mini Straighteners, we carefully inspected the harvest of spinach and found no clods and other debris; green beans level harvester can harvest green peas,
GHD Diamond Flag 2011, tender peas, direct shelling, after washing, disinfection, made into spinach, bean chips, carrot pieces, beans, and then packaging, cold cache. Packing a lot, completely based on purchaser needs.
Western United States and other Western countries is based, frozen, processed vegetables, large requirements, China ought intensify research and evolution of processed vegetables.
4 farm visits upscale
2 in San Francisco, supermarket vegetables, kind, agreeable packaging, production size, uniform, uniformity, color shine, apparently the price (penetrate Table 1).
Table 1 vegetable varieties, priced U.S. dollar / pound price
varieties varieties varieties Unit Price Unit Price
species 1.49 2.49 cabbage celery cabbage 1.OO ginger, green peppers 0.99 1.69 1.49
beans carrot broccoli 1.49 0.59 1.29
cabbage pumpkin O.99 Con zucchini O.99 O.79 O.59
carrot leek tomato O.59 O.59 O.49
pea spinach bitter bamboo shoots O.59 1.29 O.99 O.99
lotus prices of vegetables in China than in the U.S., much lower than the international market, only the United States l/10-l/20,
GHD Midnight Gift Set 2011, This is our advantage. However, the quality of vegetables, are distant less than other countries, needs to be improved.
Currently, the U.S. sales of the sharp increase in vegetables, when additional expense of Americans, Chinese Americans are many other major cities have a Chinatown,
GHD Benefit Straighteners, such as San Francisco population of almost 70 million people, accounting for 12% of Chinese in the United States there are numerous tea houses in China, so China is still very great quantity of vegetables necessitated.
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scale vegetable seed industry in California, visited a vegetable seed enterprise, which recently incorporated with two other vegetable seed company , the new large-scale companies, covering 35hm2, facilities, 40,000 m2,
GHD Carry Case & Heat Mat, bureaus, seed testing, cleaning, drying culling, category, wrapping, packaging workshop. One seed testing room 400m2, seed cold storage library 1000m2, temperature controlled by 5-10 ℃, cool, dry, the seeds can be cached for many years to solve the shortage of seed harvest and bound year, more than issues. China's vegetable seed
low price, this is the variety of industry vantage (in the U.S. a can of 385g of vegetables seeds,
GHD MK4 Pure Straighteners, priced 100 U.S. dollars), but we seed naturalness, still need to enhance the processing and packaging Therefore, the Chinese seed industry restructuring as presently as feasible, alteration their operational mechanism, the implementation of undertakings, technological research, production coalition to form a combined fleet of seed industry, to encounter post-WTO approval challenges and opportunities.
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vegetable auction market in southern New Jersey to visit one of the largest vegetable auction market, comes to lettuce, cabbage, cabbage and other transactions, At first we thought it was a vegetable wholesale market, it is reported that vegetable auction market, the market for more than 70 years, are futures trading, farmers take 1-2 boxes each category samples, participate in the auction, set a amount, contract , then the quality and quantity of example production. After the tour, we seeing because farmers to know whether deliberately mandates will occur later the gap of contract, or lower prices of vegetables and other issues listed Shiyou, farmers questioned very simply, without this, for the volume and price of afford and sale through the decades adjustment, it has transform standardized, but occasionally there are problems because of the quality of vegetables, measuring to less than the contract targets, and slightly lower prices, farmers have not opinion.
In recent years, vegetable producers face selling vegetables difficult, no sell or crop the vegetables, or vegetables fluctuated, damaged the interests of peasants. The United States this vegetable auction mart, the mall economy tin be said that beneath the arranged creation. In this path, it ambition undoubtedly be welcomed at presentmers. Hopefully, the early implementation of the domestic vegetable auction transactions.