vegetable

Over the past three decades, the vegetable industry in China has undergone dramatic changes, from a situation of undersupply before the 1980s, through an oversupply in the 1990s, to the recent efforts to ensure the safety and quality of vegetable products. These changes have provided a unique opportunity to investigate the development of Chinese government policy on vegetable production, marketing and international trade. China has become the world's largest center for vegetable production. China's vegetable growing area and production amounted to 14.67 million hectares and 440 million tons, accounting for 35 percent and 66 percent of the world total respectively. Through foreign direct investment flowing into the agricultural sector, China is developing production agriculture for vegetables. High-quality seed imports, improving domestic seed production and availability of better agricultural chemicals and equipment, as well as advances in greenhouse technology, are moving China along the road to becoming a major producer of export-quality vegetables.