质量分级促进农业现代化的理论与现实:国外文献综述

Theory and Practice of Grading as a Tool for Agriculture Modernization:A Review of Foreign Literature

农产品质量等级化日益成为我国现代农业建设的重要工作,但相关的经济学研究在国内尚未得到重视。对国外相关研究文献的综述表明,农产品质量分级促进农业现代化的基础在于,分级满足了市场的偏好差异,降低了农产品的交易成本,使得农产品真正成为一种以需求为导向、市场化流通的商品,而等级价格信息将激励生产者优化要素配置。这有助于我国更好地借鉴经济发达国家在农产品质量分级方面的经验。

Although agricuhure product quality grading has become more important for the establishment of modern agriculture in China than ever,the economic research about grading has not been paid much attention to. Reviewing of the relative literatures shows that, product quality grading not only satisfies consumers＇ preference difference, but also reduces transaction cost of agriculture products, which overcome the shortcomings restricting agriculture products from being really commodities in the market. And then,the information of grade prices motivates farmers to optimize resources inputs ,which changes the traditional agriculture to modern one. We introduce the main conclusions and provide some inspiration of economic research on agriculture product grading in China.