The impact of WTO entry on agriculture should be analyzed in detail

Introduction: Recently, Lin Yifu, an economist, pointed out in an interview with reporters in Beijing that the impact of China's accession to the WTO on agriculture should be analyzed in detail: China's accession to the WTO has exceptions for agriculture For example, the state's support for scientific research institutions in the fields of farmland water conservancy construction and agricultural technology development is allowed, and the state can increase investment in agricultural water conservancy, construction of agricultural circulation and research and development of new products Enter On the comparison of the competitiveness of grain trade between China and the United States, and the impact on agriculture after China's accession to the WTO, Professor Lin said that the impact is only the overall impression The average American farmers are more than 1200 Mu and highly mechanized, while we are several mu per household After China's accession to the WTO, the impact of China's agriculture needs specific analysis Specifically, we can classify agricultural products: one is labor-intensive vegetables, fruits, flowers, etc.; the other is land-intensive such as corn and wheat China is competitive in labor-intensive agricultural products The really uncompetitive import of corn and wheat is the implementation of "tariff quota", in which the tariff is low and in excess of the quota the tariff is high Now the quota is 14 million tons, which will rise to 21 million tons five years later 21 million tons does not account for a high proportion On the issue of increasing agricultural income, Lin Yifu said that the rural development strategy of most international institutions is to solve the problem of poverty by increasing agricultural investment, but this can not fundamentally solve the problem of rural development Because just increasing input is not specific to rural areas and agricultural products The characteristics of agricultural products are: low income elasticity and low price elasticity Rural poverty is characterized by low labour prices Simply increasing the output of agricultural products does not increase the income of farmers This is what economics calls "the valley hurts the peasants" The key to SDU's solution to increase agricultural income lies in: first, transfer the rural labor force, increase the per capita cultivated land, reduce the rural labor force, and increase the labor price Second, the transferred people, from agricultural producers to agricultural product demanders, solve the problem of low income elasticity The transfer of rural to urban labor force needs sufficient employment opportunities Where to transfer? If one-sided development of high-end, technology intensive industries creates few jobs; labor intensive industries can create many jobs Therefore, priority must be given to the development of industries with comparative advantages SDU (author:) to feed Weibo to: