Research Reports
New Farmers' Settlement and Supporting Policy
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AuthorKim, Jeongho
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Publication Date2005.12.01
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This study was to investigate the background and process of farm settling and the current farming status of prospective farmers and beginning farmers and to identify strategies to induce new human resources to farming and to facilitate their settlement.
For the purpose, this study surveyed 273 prospective farmers and 107 beginning farmers, interviewed some of them, and reviewed precedent researches and Japanese policy related with human resources induction to farming.
Survey analysis indicated the followings. Farming attitudes of prospective and beginning farmers were generally positive. Specially, if people are farm-bred or not and they are currently farming or not explain the positiveness of their farming attitude. However, rural area origin, farming experience, and agricultural education experience have no relationship with the attitude. Whereas the main influencing factor of farming intention of prospective farmers was farming attitude, that of farming readiness was agricultural education experience. The main effecting factors of current farming status of beginning farmers were agricultural education experience, age, farming career, farming objective, rural area origin, farm origin, farm succession, and farming products.
As results of survey analysis, interviews, and literature reviews, this study suggests such strategies to induce new human resources to farming and to facilitate their settlement as : intensifying general agricultural education for K-12 students to have positive attitudes toward farming and professional agricultural education and training for beginning farmers to develop their farm managing skills specified by farming duties and tasks; setting up ‘new farmer counseling center’ for prospective farmers to have an easy access to related information and assistance; inducing ‘family farm management contract’ to secure young farm successors' right and duty in farm management; improving National Agriculture Census to include basic statistics and farming status of beginning farmers.
Researchers: Kim Jeong-Ho, Ma Sang-jin
E-mail address: jhkim@krei.re.kr
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