CONTENTS
I. Introduction
II. Review of Agricultural Policy Reform in 1990s
III. Prospect of Korean Agriculture
IV. Tasks of Agricultural Policies for the 21st Century
V. Concluding Remarks
ABSTRACT
The purposes of this paper are to review the agricultural policy
reform in the 1990s, to examine the changes of agricultural situations and the
future prospect, and further to suggest policy directions toward the 21st
century for the Korean agriculture.
In Korea, agriculture is
required to become a key industry creating added values and jobs, to preserve
nation's land environment as an environment-sensitive industry, and to produce
food needed by the people as a food industry. Korean agriculture will be able to
contribute to enabling Korea to become an advanced country in the 21st century
by fulfilling these roles faithfully.
One of the important changes in
the 21st century is the spread of an awareness that agriculture has multiple
functions. Korea has advocated multi-functionality of agriculture in the WTO
negotiations, and some policies are newly being attempted as part of the
policies for sustainable agriculture.
