农业补贴指一种官方针对农业进行的介入补助，目的在保障农民生计，确保国内农产品供应稳定。

• 农业对一个国家十分重要，如果一个国家依赖进口的农产品，它的政治便会受外国供应制肘，在战争时期更可能因对外运输中断而粮食短缺。
• 农民收入不但通常都低于其他行业，而且浮动大，易受到天灾影响。在许多发达国家，农业的生产成本又比发展中国家的大，加上需求量变化不大（价格需求弹性低），如无补助，收入可能相当低。

An agricultural subsidy is a governmental subsidy paid to farmers and agribusinesses to supplement their income, manage the supply of agricultural commodities, and influence the cost and supply of such commodities. Examples of such commodities include; wheat, feed grains (grain used as fodder, such as maize or corn, sorghum, barley, and oats), cotton, milk, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, oilseeds such as soybeans, and meat products such as beef, pork, and lamb and mutton.