Abstract
Jilin is a big agricultural province in northeast China. Development of agricultural product processing industry and improvement of agro-food additional value play a vital role in improvement of living standard of farmer and increase of local government financial revenue. Therefore, agricultural product processing industry is regarded as the third pillar industry after automotive industry and petrochemical industry in Jilin Province, China. Considering the characteristics of agricultural product processing industry, such as water-consuming, over-dependent on water and agricultural products and so forth, its sustainable development seems more necessary than other industries. Sustainable development is not to limit development of agricultural product processing industry, but to further development. The investigation results demonstrated that development of agricultural product processing industry in Jilin Province is still at stage of extensive growth and the sustainable development faces big challenges. In this study, the factors that affect sustainable development of agricultural product processing industry in Jilin Province were discussed and the practicable strategies for sustainable development of agricultural product processing industry of Jilin Province were proposed.
Highlights
Jilin is a big agricultural province in northeast China
In order to find if the local government of Jilin Province has been adware of the environmental challenges, considered the sustainable development and controlled the pollutions, more than 100 agricultural product processing industries were investigated
For the reason of spaces limitation and enterprise privacy, the investigation results were only summarized briefly and the typical examples were taken for demonstration in this study
Summary
Pollution data analysis of agricultural product processing industry in recent three years was as follows. The Emissions of pollutants in agricultural product processing industry from 2006-2007 were demonstrated in Table. 2. According to the figures given in the tables, agricultural product processing industry is one of the most serious polluting industries in China, especially for water pollution. In order to find if the local government of Jilin Province has been adware of the environmental challenges, considered the sustainable development and controlled the pollutions, more than 100 agricultural product processing industries were investigated. In the view of pollution degree, for lack of supervision, environmental pollutions caused by agricultural product processing industry were more serious in remote areas, where the potentials for environmental costs control and pollution managements were smaller. Environmental Protection department have improved management of high-polluting enterprise and many industries transferred from city to countryside or remote areas. This means the health of vegetable consumer could not be ensured
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