The objectives of this study were to explore farmer education and training policies and some best practices in advanced countries including Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America, and Japan and to draw some implications for Korean farmer education the educational projects should be enhanced to inducing various kinds of new workforce into agriculture including product processing and marketing sector as well as farming sector; agricultural certificate system should be introduced to secure the quality of new agricultural human resources, which could be an entry barrier; national occupational standards in agriculture should be developed for quality control and systemic development of competency and their compatibility; educational infrastructure and human resources of agricultural education institutes should be enhanced by evaporizing, dissolving, crystallizing or concentration; business mind and scientific management skill should be strengthened in farmer education program as well as production competencies; agriculture related institutes and organization should be united to solve chronic agricultural problems through agricultural education reform.
Researchers: Ma, Sang-Jin and Choi, Kyeong-Hwan
Research period: 2007. 11. - 2008. 2.
E-mail address: msj@krei.re.kr