综合农协：中国三农改革的突破口

Abstract

After dismantling the People’s Commune in the early 1980s, China adopted the Family Production Responsibility System and began to explore the organization of farmers’ cooperatives in the context of its transition to the market economy. Under the situation that communes were disbanded and Supply and marketing cooperatives and Credit Cooperatives couldn’t provide proper services, farmers tried to organize themselves on their own. With the establishment of Farmers’ Professional Cooperative Law, the development of farmers’ cooperatives entered a new phase. The successful experiences of Japan and Korean agricultural cooperatives and Taiwanese agricultural associations in muti-business agricultural cooperative organizations can have a lot of implications for farmers cooperatives in China. After the World War II, Korea and Taiwan generated small-scale independent farmers through a land reform and handled the dilemma of keeping farming small but modernized, through the vast network of farmers’ organizations which provide comprehensive services. In today’s highly industrialized and urbanized world, Japan, Korea and Taiwan are taking a completely different path from western countries. The services provided by farmers’ cooperatives kept small farms from disappearing through the improvement of productivity of land and quality of agricultural products and increased farmers’ income to the level as similar as workers’ income in urban cities. This paper describes China’s current situation including its transition to a modern society and, through the analysis of possible directions for the modernization of rural areas, suggests that the introduction of muti-business agricultural cooperatives will make a breakthrough in the reform of three Nongs (Farmer, Agriculture, and Farm village).