The United States and Japan are both major agricultural countries in the world. What is the difference between the United States and China? Who is strong and who is weak?

The modern agriculture of the United States and Japan are among the most developed in the world, with advanced mode of production and productivity level. The success of American agriculture is mainly due to the unique agricultural resources, but it is closely related to the organizational structure and management mechanism of agriculture and related industries. Japan, on the other hand, is a country with little land and a large population, and there are too many factors in its own efforts to become a world agricultural power. Let's take a look at the reasons for the agricultural success in the United States and Japan.

1 attach importance to agricultural education

In the past 100 years, the United States has made great efforts in education, scientific research, extension and improving the quality of farmers, and invested a lot of money in agricultural education, scientific research, extension, and so on. Communities and individuals are also active in agricultural education, and agricultural education and scientific research have also acquired a lot of modern equipment and facilities. 90% of the farmers in the United States have education level above high school. Half of the farmers under the age of 50 have college level or above. They can operate all kinds of agricultural machinery, can also engage in farm management, but also skilled workers.

2 popularizing agricultural machinery

As early as the 1920s, the United States used machinery to transport agricultural products, using simple livestock slaughtering and fruit packaging production lines; in the 1940s, it used large agricultural machinery; in the 1950s and 1960s, the level of agricultural mechanization was already very high, and many of them were fully mechanized; in the 1970s, the most difficult cotton and tobacco were also mechanized; in recent years, they have promoted the use of modern high and new technology.

3 intensive management, specialization of production and socialization of service

Now intensive management has become the main mode of operation in the United States. Small farms account for 64% of part-time agricultural products, while medium-sized farms account for 12.6%. Although large-scale agricultural products account for only 1%, their output value accounts for 27.8%. The proportion of farm specialization is very high, as high as 80%, some 95%. It has all kinds of large-scale means of production companies, banks and credit cooperatives that provide credit to farmers, various cooperatives organized by farmers themselves, various associations organized by farmers, farmers' markets, and so on.

4. The combination of market mechanism and government support

Although the US government does not have such high subsidies as those of EU countries, it attaches great importance to supporting agriculture. American agriculture tends to be international. However, the agricultural Internet in the United States is not as developed as China, and Chinese farmers have directly entered the smartphone era, and the huge population base has given birth to the world's largest agricultural technology question and answer website, "Cloud farming". The questions raised by farmers can be answered by experts within two minutes, which really helps farmers to produce.

5. strengthen the construction of agricultural infrastructure

The highway in the United States is very developed, agricultural machinery is easy to reach farmland, the transportation of agricultural products is also very convenient, and agricultural areas have built drainage and irrigation facilities, sprinkler irrigation river drip irrigation technology is also very common.

6 intensive cultivation

The characteristics of Japan in the process of agricultural modernization are very obvious: ① is chemical first, then mechanized. Japan is the first country in the world to realize agricultural chemistry, which stems from its national conditions of little land and intensive cultivation. Japan has a developed agricultural cooperative, the Japan Agricultural Cooperative Group (Agricultural Association), which has various and comprehensive functions, covering agricultural production, the purchase, sale and circulation of agricultural products and other fields. there are relevant chapters responsible for the procurement of agricultural means of production, farmers' production plans, the sale of agricultural products and other matters.