Agriculture is a weak, special and fundamental industry with high risks as well as high social benefit. This makes it a worldwide topic for governments to support and protect agriculture.The agriculture of our country faces the competition of foreign competitors on the background of the globalization of economy. Our country became a member of the WTO on December 11, 2001. Our agriculture is one of the industries which are most paid attention to in the negotiations of our access. WTO's agreements on agriculture formulated a series of rules relating to international agricultural trade, including tariffication of non-tariff trade barriers, concession of tariff diminution, allowing more market access, cutting of export subsidies, reduction in domestic policies that cause warping to trade, and etc. All these agreements and our promise and the variation of agricultural trade environment caused by the fulfillment of our promise bring to our agriculture both opportunity and challenge.The proportion of agriculture in the economy of western minority nationality regions is big. And western minority nationality areas have a comparative advantage in agriculture in our country. These make... |