An Comparatively Analysis On Japanese&American Agriculture Protective Policies

Agriculture is the source of human beings'eating and surviving. Even it occupies a little part in some developed countries'economy(and the proportion is decreasing ), the status of agriculture is still essential, because of agriculture supporting basic materials to society. In western developed countries, they carry out agricultural protecting policies, in order to make assure continuable progress of agriculture.Japan is an island country. It is one of the biggest population country in the world. Its acreage of plantation is reducing, its agricultural production is cutting down, its part-time and small-size management farmers are increasing, its farmers'management models is becoming more, its commercial percentage of agricultural products is becoming higher, its population of farmers is reducing, and the age of farmers is older. From upward factors, we can see Japan is a more-population-with-less-land country.American agriculture is a typical modern capitalist model. From the middle of 1980s, American agriculture was provided with automatic, chemical, and biological characteristics. In 1990s, The U.S. made a gross reform on its agriculture. The American great progress on agriculture owed to its government's perfecting protective policies. The U.S. and Japan, being two typical but different developed countries, have their unique agricultural policies, and what they have done have typical and direct meaning to us.Through comparing, we can find that American agricultural protective policies and Japanese's have the common characteristics: they are both from price-support policies to income-support policies, and they have similar domestic supporting measures. In recent decade, most of countries'agricultural policies is from price-supporting to income-supporting, which is their agricultural policies'remarkable change. The income-supporting policies have substituted or partly substituted the price-supporting policies. The two...