Consumers’ Awareness of Genetically Modified Food and Their Willingness to Buy in Yanbian Prefecture

• 作者: TENG Kui-xiu WANG Lin YANG Xiao-wei YANG Xing-long
• 来源期刊: 亚洲农业研究：英文版
• 学科: 经济
• 关键词: Genetically MODIFIED FOOD AWARENESS WILLINGNESS to
• 年，卷（期）: 2012,（10）
• 页码范围: 54-57
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: F203

摘要

Having a clear understanding of consumers’ awareness of genetically modified food and their willingness to buy, plays a very important role in formulating the regulatory policy of genetically modified food and regulating the market of genetically modified food. This paper takes the supermarket consumers as the study object. Through on-site questionnaire survey, we find that consumers’ awareness of genetically modified food is not high in Yanbian Prefecture, and their willingness to buy is also low; the prices of genetically modified food, consumers’ income, educational level and so on, are the main factors that affect the willingness to buy. Based on this, we put forth the relevant recommendations: increasing publicity efforts to safeguard consumers’ right to know and choose; increasing supervision efforts to improve the existing regulatory system of genetically modified food; actively organizing forces to carry out the study on safety of genetically modified food.