State Agrarian Sector Support in the Conditions of the 1925–2012 Economic Policy International Coordination: Foreign Experience

The article analyzes the mechanism of implementation of the state agrarian policy in progressing for the period 1995–2012. In countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, in the context of multilateral regulation of world agricultural economic  markets, it  was possible  to identify the specifics  of  each  and  the  most common ways of adapting state support for agriculture to national obligations to the WTO. The general directions of adjusting the state agrarian policy of the mentioned countries   are   considered:   preservation,   basically,   on   the   level   of   tariff,   and somewhere  non-tariff  protection,  with  the  subsequent  transfer  of  the  latter  to uniform  standards;  gradual  transition  to  the  least  destructive  in  relation  t o  the market forms of support for agricultural producers; pulling average PSE and TSE levels in OECD countries to average specific indicators. Accession to the WTO and the adoption of fixed obligations did not slow down the development of the agricultural sector of these countries, which is confirmed, firstly, by the dynamics of gross agricultural   production,  which  accelerated   sharply  at   the  stage  of   the  2000s and outpaced  the  population  growth  rate;  secondly,  an  increase  in  agricultural productivity. It is proved that membership in the WTO does not prevent the search for individual forms of support for agriculture that are tailored to the specifics of a certain period in a particular country, logically stimulating their approach first to the level of desired direct payments, increasing the income of farmers, and then in the green basket, leaving space to “bargain” for favourable conditions for state support for   agricultural   development   within   the   framework   of   the   Doha   round   of negotiations.