China
Agricultural Product Safety and Quality
 Description                                                          Development Challenge
 Purpose: To assist Jilin Province in improving its                   The government of China has made food safety a top priority
 agricultural product quality and reducing agricultural               in recent years and is taking clear actions to upgrade their
 product safety risks.                                                food safety system. It passed the Law on Agricultural Product
 Expected Results (include): (i) Introducing good                     Quality and Safety in 2006 and the Law on Food Safety in
 agricultural practices, (ii) Improving the
                                                                      2009. The Jilin Agriculture Product Quality and Safety
 implementation of agricultural product safety related
 regulations, and (iii) Strengthening the agricultural                Project is part of the national efforts to upgrade food safety
 product safety monitoring system.                                    infrastructure, procedures and capacity to implement these
 IBRD Financing: $100 million                                         new national laws.

                                                                      Project Description
                                                                      The projects supports the development of good agricultural
                                                                      practices for agricultural product quality and safety. This
                                                                      includes the upgrading of the agricultural product safety and
                                                                      quality testing, management, monitoring, and enforcement
                                                                      system in the agricultural commission, livestock bureau, and
                                                                      water resources bureau in Jilin province. The project will also
                                                                      finance research that identifies key areas of research that can
                                                                      be directly applied to improving agricultural product safety,
                                                                      and the demonstration models for safe agriculture supply
                                                                      chains.

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For more information:
http://www.worldbank.org/projects/P101716/jilin-agricultural-product-safety-quality?lang=en
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