Antitrust law’s regulations on scale management in china’s new agricultural industrialization system

Abstract

The key to the success of a new agricultural management system is to create new types of operators of agricultural management and to reform the traditional model of agricultural operation, taking a more efficient approach to the scale, industrialization, and organization. However, anticompetitive market risks have the potential to exist in large-scale agriculture due to the excessive concentration of agricultural resources. Chinese legislators should turn competition policies into laws, determine the scope of agricultural exemptions, and learn from US anticorporate farming laws. Utilizing these strategies, antitrust laws can help guide and protect the design and implementation of the industrial polices in the new agricultural management system, rationally regulate some anticompetitive behavior in the agricultural market, and enhance the overall competitiveness of the agriculture industry as well as cater to the interests of the farmers and the welfare of consumers.