Abstract: Agricultural cleaner production is a new model of agricultural development, its aim is to improve the management and monitoring system, reduce the pollution in the process of agricultural production to meet the need of agricultural production by producing and using clean energy and raw materials. The authors introduced the concept, background and significance, and also the goal of agricultural cleaner production, and the development status of agricultural cleaner production was reviewed by taking the examples of the United States, European countries and Japan. The situation of agricultural cleaner production in China was elaborated from two aspects: crop farming and animal husbandry, and the problems existed in agricultural cleaner production in China were pointed out: (1) imperfect laws and regulations, lack of adequate cognition and participation in policy making; (2) policy support from government was insufficient and underfunded; (3) cleaner production technical specification was not unified, and promotion mechanism was not perfect. Finally some countermeasures were put forward for agricultural cleaner production in China: (1) to increase publicity of agricultural cleaner production, and to cultivate the public consciousness of cleaner production; (2) to strengthen the rational utilization and protection of agricultural natural resources; (3) to promote cleaner production, agricultural enterprises should further solve the problem of pollution prevention; (4) to strengthen the cleaner production of animal husbandry, adjust the industrial structure; (5) to strengthen the consciousness of food safety, increase support for high quality agricultural production.