建立健全研究生教育收费制度，完善研究生资助政策，是当前研究生工作中的重中之重。文章回顾研究生资助历史，分析目前地方农林高校研究生资助工作中存在的问题，就新形势下如何利用现有国家对研究生教育资助政策，构建地方农林高校研究生资助体系提出了一系列的建议和设想。“,”To establish and perfect the system of graduate education fees,improve graduate student aid policy,the most im-portant thing is the current graduate work.This article reviews the history of sustentation for graduate,analyzes the existing problems in the present work of sustentation for graduate in local universities of agriculture and forestry and proposes a series of suggestions and ideas on how to use the existing state of graduate student education aid policy to construct sustentation system for graduate in local universities of agriculture and forestry under new situation.