利用期货市场帮助农民避险增收初探

本文认为,面对激烈的国际化大市场的竞争,在社会主义市场经济条件下,迫切需要进一步完善包括期货市场在内的多层次农产品市场体系,充分发挥市场机制作用,促进农民增收和农业的可持续发展。文章提出,进一步发挥农产品期货市场在农民避险增收中的作用,一要为期货市场发展创造良好的政策环境;二要增加大宗农产品交易品种,扩大期货市场规模;三要积极培育中介组织和农业产业化龙头企业;四要完善利用期货市场促进农民增收的金融政策;五要加大政府对农民市场知识的培训力度。

Help Farmers Transfer Risk and Increase Income with the Usage of Futures Market

The author points out that,competition of the internationalized market and socialist market economy urgently requires us to further improve the agricultural product market system,which with the futures market as part of it.To give full play to the role of agricultural product futures market in helping farmers transfer risk and increasing income,we should,first,create sound policy environment for the development of futures market;second,provide more choices for the wholesale agricultural product trading and enlarge the scale of this market;third,cultivate more intermediaries and leading companies;fourth,improve finance policy related to this;and fifth,make greater effort to train the farmers.