Abstract:

With China’s agricultural product consumption changing from energy consumption into nutrition consumption, excess energy and insufficient effective supply of nutrient elements have become one of the main contradictions in the development of modern agriculture in China. Functional agriculture produces agricultural products (food) with specific micronutrients and other beneficial effects by means of biological nutrition fortification, so as to realize the high quality, high nutrition, functionalization and safety of agricultural products (food). Speeding up the development of functional agriculture and strengthening the nutritional function of agricultural products are not only an important measure to improve the health level of urban and rural residents, but also the objective requirement to promote the supply-side reform of modern agriculture. This paper summarized the necessity of the development of functional agriculture in China, the main problems existing in the development process and the main pathways to solve them, in order to provide reference for the nutrition fortification for urban and rural residents and the healthy development of functional agriculture.

Key words: functional agriculture, functional food, development necessity, existing problems, pathway analysis