현 단계 농업구조문제와 농업구조정책의 방향

Abstract

The purposes of this study are to clarify the present structural problems and to suggest policy direction of structural reform in Korean agriculture. To achieve this research objectives, the characteristics of structural change and the nature of structural problems in Korean agriculture were analyzed, and the policy direction and major policy measures for agricultural structural reform since 1990s were examined. This study emphasized that the policy direction and measures of agricultural structural reform should be taken variously in accordance with the concrete conditions of regional agriculture, and the reform of agricultural structure should be directed toward organizing a large number of the small and middle farms to use their agricultural resources efficiently as well as supporting a small number of the upper-class farms, so-called the full-time farmers and socio-economic supports for small and old-aged farmers should be enforced.