The purpose of this study is to explore ways to improve the farm manager registration program introduced in 2008 to better support agricultural policies, mainly by evaluating the current process and redefining the direction of the program. The overall effectiveness of the registration program was found to be low, as the program was not connected with the agricultural policy projects. This research will, therefore, focus on addressing the primary objective of the registration program, resetting the directions of its development and refining the measures of application.
The revised directions of the development are summarized as follows: First, the Korean Integrated Administration and Control System (KIACS) needs to be established, in which the registered data of the program play a key role as basic information. Second, the connection of the registration program with the agricultural policy projects should be built step by step based on the ease of obtaining information and the reliability of the information. Third, in order to meet diverse needs of farmers, it is necessary to use the registered information as a means of the foundation for implementing customized agricultural policy. Fourth, the registration program should be operated as a certification of agricultural holdings. In the process, the criteria of agricultural holdings should be established. Fifth, it is necessary to examine the potential for statistical utilization of the registered data. Sixth, customized policy information should be provided to meet the various needs of farmers and the registration program should be used as a means of implementing the Policy Customer Relationship Management (PCRM).
The most important measure for institutional improvement of the registration program is the establishment of KIACS. The basic elements of this process are as follows: 1. the way to create the integrated database for KIACS, 2. the possibility to use the tax data of agricultural holdings, 3. the order of the agricultural policy projects, which are applicable to the KIACS. The proposals, which correspond to the respective element, will be made ​​in the form of the selection or stepwise.
The farm manager registration program was introduced to support the farm management of agricultural holdings effectively, but the registration program has an inherent characteristic of functioning as the certification standard of agricultural holdings. Therefore, the registration program should be developed so that it can operate very well in these two dimensions. To set up the recognition criteria of an agricultural holding, it is necessary to define the concept of the agricultural holding and its minimum size. The term 'agricultural holding' should include a concept of an enterprise which a farmer manages on the independent material basis. In this respect, the criteria for registration of three agricultural sectors are proposed in the form of the minimum size.

Researcher: Soosuk Kim, Jong-Sun Kim, Areum Byun
Research period: 2013. 8. - 2013. 12.
E-mail address: soosuk@krei.re.kr