Study on Functions of the Agriculture Cooperative in Food Safety

The question of food safety has been paid more attention by government and enterprises. The international trend is that the methods have changed form the end control to the procedure control. It make the farmer as the gate of the food production face more pressions. They can not provide the required technology,capital and human cost of controll the agri-food safety, because their operation mode is nonconcentrated. So the farmers must build a organization to undertake the responsibility of controlling the agri-food quality safety, that is the agricultrural cooperative.The agricultural cooperative is an effective carrier to undertake the responsibility for controlling the agri-food quality safety, and it can be an effective actor organization in agri-food SCM, and it also can be an important organization form helping government carry out agriculture production quality inspection and management. In China, the agriculture cooperatives achieved large performance in controlling and safeguarding food safety, raising farmers income and promoting market competition power.