论农业补贴的性质及其补贴方式的转变

Agricultural Subsidies: Nature and Transformation of Forms

政府对农业实行补贴并非因为农业是弱质产业,而是花钱从农民那里购买"粮食安全"。粮食安全与粮食价格直接相关,市场粮价越高,国家粮食就越安全。因此,为了维护粮农利益与粮食安全,粮食短缺时应放开粮价,让财政拿钱补贴低收入者吃饭;相反,粮食过剩时政府则补贴休耕。

Government subsidizes agriculture not because it is a disadvantaged industry but to buy ＂grain security＂ from farmers. Grain security is directly related to grain prices in that the higher grain prices are, the securer a country＇s grain is. Therefore, to safeguard the interests of grain farmers and grain security, grain prices should be decontrolled when there is a shortage by subsidizing low income groups through public finance, and conversely, government should subsidize fallow land when there is a glut.