The purpose of this study is to make the farm manager registration program progress for better supporting agricultural policies by providing ways to enhance accuracy of farm managers' registered information and its application to agricultural policies.
As a result of a mail survey designed for investigating the current operating state of the farm manager registration program, the degree of farm managers' recognition and voluntary participation in this program were appeared to be low. It was also concluded from the survey that the instant application of registered information to agricultural policies is necessary for the farm manager registration program to be successful.
In order to attract farm managers' interest and voluntary participation in the farm manager registration program, the necessity and purpose of the registration program need to be advertised through various methods such as the TV, the press, and farm education programs.
For the matter of enhancing accuracy of registered information, registered information needs to be categorized into one that can be voluntarily altered by farm managers and the other that needs administrative correction measures. In the case of the former category, it is necessary that farm managers upgrade their farming information in a way of en masse registration once a year as well as at the time of changes in registered information.
This study suggests several ways to heighten the application of the farm manager registration program as follows:
First, the registration program can be used as a measure of farmers' business register in the area of crop production.
Second, the application of the registration program to agricultural policies is appropriate to be implemented systematically on the basis of the facility of information collection and application. For example, the registration program needs to be connected first with direct payment for the field crop and move to direct payment for rice income compensation, then direct payment for farm income stabilization.
Third, farm managers' registered information can be very useful statistical data to policy makers and researchers, if its accuracy is approved, because this registered information has characteristics of census data. Among 53 items in registered information, for example, 2 items concerning the lease of farmland and farming area seem to be available for statistical data.


Researchers: Kim, Soo-Suk, Kim, Jong-Sun and Jeong, Seo-Yeon
Research period: 2011. 8. - 2011. 12.
E-mail address: soosuk@krei.re.kr