China Ready for Good Agricultural Practice Certification

Cologne, 24 February 2009 -- GLOBALGAP announced today the successful completion of the benchmarking of ChinaGAP against the GLOBALGAP Good Agricultural Practice reference code. Dr Kristian Moeller Secretary of GLOBALGAP said: “This is an important milestone in the collaboration of  GLOBALGAP with the Peoples Republic of China in promoting Good Agricultural practices which was first established in 2005.

Today’s announcement means that Chinese producers will be able to benefit from the rigour and world wide acceptance of the GLOBALGAP certification system whilst using the nationally supported ChinaGAP scheme.”

Mr. WANG Daning, Deputy Chief Administrator of CNCA, said: “We are delighted to have reached this important point in our partnership with GLOBALGAP. ChinaGAP  has two levels,  firstly an entry level to encourage early adoption of Good Agricultural Practices and their certification, and a higher level where producers can receive the GLOBALGAP equivalence mark which will bring International recognition to China’s farm products.”