Current situation of agricultural subsidies in China

Introduction: We classified and calculated China's agricultural support and subsidies from 1996 to 1998 1 Green box policy Among the green box policy subsidies, China mainly provides "general service" subsidies to agriculture, amounting to 78.56 billion yuan, accounting for 52% of the green box policy subsidies, followed by food security reserve subsidies, accounting for 38.38 billion yuan, accounting for 25%, as well as natural disaster relief, poverty alleviation, agricultural ecological environment construction support, etc However, direct income support and structural adjustment subsidies for farmers have not been included in the financial budget China's agricultural green box policy support measures have the following characteristics: FFS (1) the overall support level of green box policy measures shows an increasing trend In 1997, the total support level was 131.254 billion yuan, an increase of 19.076 billion yuan or 17% over 1996; in 1998, the total support level was 210.815 billion yuan, an increase of 79.561 billion yuan or 60.6% over 1997 From 1996 to 1998, the average level of support was 151.416 billion yuan, equivalent to 18.3 billion US dollars FFS (2) "government general service" support accounts for a large proportion "Government general service" accounts for about 52% of green box subsidies, of which: agricultural infrastructure support is heavy, with an average of RMB 48.59 billion (US $5.9 billion) from 1996 to 1998, accounting for 32.1% of the green box support level; agricultural technology promotion and consulting service support, with an average of RMB 6.25 billion (US $760 million) from 1996 to 1998, accounting for 4% of the green box support level; existing support, The lowest level of support is agricultural training services The average level of support from 1996 to 1998 was only 210 million yuan, accounting for only 0.1% of the total level of green box support; the average level of support for agricultural scientific research in 1996-1998 was 4.058 billion yuan (490 million US dollars), accounting for 2.7% of the green box support; the average support for pest control was 2.132 billion yuan, accounting for only 1.4% The expenditure of FFS (3) food security reserve is large From 1996 to 1998, the average support level was 38.378 billion yuan (4.64 billion US dollars), accounting for 25.3% of the green box support level The support of FFS (4) to the construction of agricultural environment and ecological agriculture is gradually increasing From 1996 to 1998, the average support level was 5.345 billion yuan (US $650 million), accounting for 3.5% of the green box support level FFS 2 Yellow box policy FFS needs to calculate AMS when it comes to subsidy of yellow box policy From 1996 to 1998, there were two kinds of yellow box policies implemented in China: (1) government price purchase and protection price purchase of grain and cotton; (2) price difference subsidy of agricultural means of production At present, the main characteristics of China's yellow box policy subsidies are: FFS (1) grain and cotton and other specific agricultural products are in a negative protection state in general From 1996 to 1998, the annual average AMS of specific agricultural products in China was - 25.2 billion yuan, which is due to the long-term industrial policy that agriculture supports industrial development in China The national macro policy is to favor the consumers of industry and agricultural products, and form the government's tax policy on the agricultural sector, that is, instead of giving the farmers price support, the government intervenes at a price lower than the international market price Prices, which take away the interests of farmers, average 25.2 billion yuan a year The negative protection level of FFS (2) to specific agricultural products is gradually decreasing From 1996 to 1998, the Total AMS of specific agricultural products was - 34.98 billion yuan, - 22.053 billion yuan and - 18.622 billion yuan respectively This is because in recent years, the state has increased the purchase price of agricultural products and increased the overall investment in agriculture FFS (3) there is still a certain subsidy space for China's agricultural domestic support On the basis of the current level of support, subsidies for grain and cotton prices can be increased by 61.75 billion yuan It should be pointed out that the agricultural agreement of WTO stipulates that the price support provided by the government should be aimed at the producers of agricultural products, not the circulation department Therefore, although there is a certain space for adjustment and control in the total amount of price support in the future, great reform needs to be made in the support structure and subsidy target We should protect the interests of farmers by adjusting the efficiency of price support of agricultural products The calculation of FFS also shows that China has certain space to regulate and control the subsidies for agricultural means of production, credit, storage, transportation and circulation of main agricultural products, which can increase by 176.8 billion yuan on the current basis However, there is also the problem of adjusting the goal of supporting subsidies, from the support to the intermediate links and circulation departments to the support to the agricultural production departments FFS (author:) to feed Weibo to: