The aim of this article is to estimate the rice production-cost reduction
effect of the Farmscale Promotion Project in the 1990s. The Farmsize Promotion
Project has increased farmers' farmsize, connected farmland plots, and
substituted young farmers for old farmers.
These changes yielded the rice production-cost reduction effect.
The rice production-cost reduction effect of the Farmsize Promotion Project
in the 1990s is equivalent to about 12.2% of rice production cost in 1999. And
the rice production-cost reduction by increasing farmers' farmsize is most
important and biggest of all.
But the level of rice production-cost of Korea is higher than that of U.S.A,
etc and the Government had better try to increase farmers' farmsize through
continuous efficient propulsion of Farmsize Promotion
Project.
