4. Agriculture
（四）农业
The scale and national conditions of agriculture as well as economic development levels of China, Japan and the ROK are different. Strengthening agricultural cooperation among them is not only helpful for promoting agricultural development of the three countries, but also conducive to improving the well-being of people in the three countries and maintaining food security of Asia and the world as a whole.
中日韩三国农业经营规模、农业自然条件和经济发展水平各有差异，加强农业合作不仅有助于推动三国农业的发展，同时有助于提高三国人民的福祉，维护亚洲乃至世界粮食安全。
At the Second Trilateral Summit Meeting in 2009, leaders of the three countries reached the consensus to “explore a mechanism of tripartite agricultural cooperation”. The First Trilateral Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting was held in the ROK in April 2012. Chinese Agriculture Minister Han Changfu, ROK Minister Suh Kyu Yong for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Japanese Minister Michihiko Kano of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries led delegations to the meeting and had in-depth exchange of views on food security, disease prevention and control for animals and plants, the set-up of agricultural partnership and other global and regional hot-spot issues concerning agriculture or food. They also issued a joint communiqué. The success of the meeting marked significant improvement of the tripartite agricultural cooperation mechanism and the growing tripartite agricultural cooperation in depth and breath.
在2009年召开的第二次中日韩领导人会议上，三国领导人达成了“探讨三国建立农业合作机制”共识。2012年4月，首届中日韩三国农业部长会议在韩国召开。中国农业部部长韩长赋、韩国农林水产食品部长官徐圭龙和日本农林水产大臣鹿野道彦分别率团与会。三国农业部长就粮食安全、动植物疫病防控、建立农业伙伴关系和其他全球及区域粮农热点问题深入交换了意见，并共同发表了联合公报。这次会议成功举行，标志着三国农业合作机制更加完善，三国农业合作的深度和广度也将不断增加。