一、历史的展开及现实的迫切性 80年代中后期在中国流行起来的“农业规模经营”一词,在我看来,大体与6O年代日本的“农业构造改善”一词相当。但作为政策用语,则各有其特定的内涵。 农业中以家庭经营为主,50年代户均耕地面积在1公顷左右,这些,日本和中国十分近似。日本搞农业规模经营,比中国要早,但收到成效,则是近二三十年的事。 I. History and Urgency The term “agricultural scale management” popularized in China in the late 1980s is, in my opinion, roughly equivalent to Japan’s “improvement of agricultural structure” in the 1960s. However, as a policy language, each has its own specific content. In agriculture, the family business is the mainstay. In the 1950s, the average household arable land was about 1 hectare. These are very similar between Japan and China. It is almost two decades for Japan to scale agricultural operations ahead of China but its success has been achieved.