Policies and Regulations

Chapter 4 Trademarks for Agricultural Products and Geographical Indications

Updated: 2010-04-22 15:21

——Giving preferential examination to the Geographical Indications from Qinghai, Ningxia, Sichuan and other provinces in western China; Sichuan Anyue Lemon reaped a bumper harvest.

——Publicizing knowledge about Geographical Indication, and guiding local industrial associations to register the Geographical Indications as long as they meet the requirements;

——Helping farmers and agricultural businesses by training them to develop distinctive agriculture so as to accelerate local agricultural development by means of Geographical Indication and trademarks for agricultural products.

2. Actively Promoting the Mechanism of Enriching Farmers by Trademark so as to Promote Agricultural Development

For better carrying out the instruction from central government and serving farmers, agriculture and development in countryside, SAIC and AICs at all levels concentrated on registration and application of Geographical Indication and trademark for agricultural products, and extended their service to countryside. The Trademark Office figured out concept of distinctive agricultural product trademark and relevant implementation plan, i.e. guided by distinctive agricultural product trademarks and Geographical Indications and asked local AIC to promote the “Company + Trademark + Farmer” business model. The model, proved effective in stimulating industrialization of agriculture development and the structure transform of traditional agriculture, took Geographical Indication and trademark as the lead to develop distinctive agriculture, made full use of geographical advantages, and turned distinctive agricultural products to a means of enrichment. There were widespread successful cases in this regard, attracting more and more attention from local governments. A sample survey to Geographical Indications of 81 varieties of agricultural products in 2009, 24.16 percent of local people were engaged in agricultural products with Geographical Indications, average prices of products with Geographical Indications were 87.69 percent higher than before, with the highest was even 500 percent. Income of farmers working with products with Geographical Indications took 38.78 percent of their total, 75.39 percent more than before, with the highest again 500 percent higher.

AIC Cadres of Gansu went down to the countryside to guide the work related to agricultural product trademarks.