It is to be replaced by a specialty form, the agricultural trade supermarket.

The Impact of Wet Market Transforming into Food Supermarket on the Agro-food Circulation;

Meanwhile,this causes the dispute about "the transformation of free market of agricultural products into supermarket".

With the constant improvement of urban people s consumption level, the urban agricultural trade market is becoming increasingly unfit for their daily needs.

This paper explains the goals, principles, system, modes of exchange, and countermeasures of the metropolis agricultural product markets in Shanghai from the objective of establishing such a market system consistent with Shanghai s identiry.

The appearance of supermarket agriculture is very important in facilitating the strategic adjustment of the agricultural economic structure and the optimization of farm production structure,especially in the transformation of farmer s markets into supermarkets.

But there still exists some factors which limit it development such as complexity in interest relations between the market principals,the relatively high running cost of the fresh raw food in supermarkets,sluggish development of the supermarket agriculture,incomplete distributing system of farm produce,and lack in the freedom in the institution.