Comparative study of domestic and foreign agricultural support policies

Agriculture plays a fundamental role in national development.In the context of globalization,the developed countries have always been implementing powerful support and protection policies in a trend of diversification.The agricultural policies and its effects are highly related to a country's agricultural development.The agricultural support and protection policies in China has been implementing quite later than most of the developed countries,which has a quite long history of agricultural protectionism.We scanned the agriculture supporting policy systems of the USA,Canada,the EU and Japan through documentary analysis,and qualitatively compared the purpose and measures related to agriculture support policies between China and main developed countries.On summarizing the characteristics and experiences of developed countries,we suggested that China,as a big developing country with a large population,needs to establish its agricultural support policy according to the national conditions,clarify the purposes of agricultural support policy and optimize the related measures with the change of domestic and international environments.