Food safety controls in different governance structures in China’s vegetable and fruit industry

ZHOU Jie-hong; LI Kai; LIANG Qiao

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Food safety controls in different governance structures in China’s vegetable and fruit industry

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Food safety issues constitute an international topic discussed by many scholars. Although there is an extensive body of literature on comparisons of food safety control practices across different governance structures, these studies have been conducted mainly in terms of qualitative and descriptive analysis. In addition, little attention has been given to family farms. This study addresses the food safety control practices adopted by ifrms with different governance structures in China. Food safety control is expressed by the folowing aspects, i.e., polution-free, green, organic, and/or geographical indication prod-ucts certiifcation, establishment of production records, and pesticide residue testing. Three types of governance structures that engage in agricultural production are distinguished: farmer cooperatives, agricultural companies, and family farms. The food safety control practices of various governance structures are investigated based on a database that comprises 600 vegetable and fruit enterprises in Zhejiang, China. The results show that (1) pesticide residue testing is adopted by the most ifrms, folowed by products certiifcation, and production records are adopted by the fewest ifrms, and (2) agricul-tural companies adopt more food safety control practices than family farms, while farmer cooperatives adopt the fewest food safety control practices. Governance structure features of a cooperative in terms of ownership, decision-making, and income distribution are the main reasons for the low level of food safety control in the cooperative.

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《农业科学学报（英文版）》 |2015年第11期|2189-2202|共14页
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ZHOU Jie-hong; LI Kai; LIANG Qiao;
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China Academy for Rural Development, School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R.China;

China Academy for Rural Development, School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R.China;

China Academy for Rural Development, School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R.China;

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