中国农业出版社是农业农村部直属的中央大型综合性出版社。1958年5月，成立于1912年的中华书局农业书籍和古代农书部门独立组建为农业出版社。1993年，农村读物出版社并入，中国农业出版社成为名副其实的“三农”出版社。被中宣部、新闻出版署评为首批15家“全国优秀图书出版单位”之一。
我社出版范围涵盖农业领域的种植、养殖、农业经济、农史古籍、农业百科、期刊、农业标准，以及大众读物领域的生活、文艺文教、美术、少儿等方面；同时，作为教育部指定的“教材出版基地”，全方位推出高等教育、职业教育、农民培训等不同教育阶段的各类教材。产品还涉及音像、电子、数字出版物以及网络出版物，并提供装帧、设计、彩色制作、印刷制作等服务。
截至2021年底，我社出书总品种7万多种，总印数7亿余册，有614种图书、917种教材分别获得国家级和省（部）级优秀图书奖和优秀教材奖，为我国“三农”发展和农村文化繁荣做出了重要贡献，牢固确立了在“三农”图书出版领域的主力军地位。
我社多年来同Elsevier、Wiley、Springer、Taylor等国际出版集团和美国、英国、法国、西班牙、日本等国的众多出版公司及版权代理公司开展了广泛的版权合作，在兽医、水产、栽培、园艺、经管、儿童科普等领域翻译出版了一批畅销图书，并将作物种植、基础兽医、茶文化、农耕文明、农业经济、家庭教育等领域的精品力作推广到英语国家、俄语国家、日本、韩国、越南、哈萨克斯坦、波兰等地区。
China Agriculture Press Co., Ltd. (CAP, subsidiary: Rural Readings Press) is a large comprehensive publishing company under the direct leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, PRC. It was founded in 1958 and awarded the honor as one of the first fifteen National Excellent Book Publishers.
The products of CAP cover publications, audio-visual products, electronic products, agricultural knowledge online platform. The publications are classified into the following categories: agricultural professional books (science and technology, economy and management, ancient classics, encyclopaedia, statistical reports, standards, magazines); popular books (leisure books, children’s books, educational books, literary and art books); agricultural textbooks (textbooks for agricultural colleges and vocational schools, training books for farmers).
By the end of 2021, 614 kinds of books and 917 kinds of textbooks published by CAP has won various national, provincial and ministerial levels awards. CAP makes significant contribution to agricultural development and the prosperity of rural culture of our country.
CAP has built up good co-operative relationship and copyright trade with some worldly famous publishing groups as Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor, excellent publishing houses and influential copyright agencies from USA, UK, French, Spain, Japan,etc. The cooperation publications have achieved prominent social and economic benefits. CAP translated and published many great books of veterinary, garden and children. Meanwhile, CAP books of tea culture, agricultural civilization, crop cultivation, and agricultural economy were translated into foreign language and published in English-speaking countries,as well as Russia, Japan, Vietnam Poland and Kazakhstan.
