경제개발5개년계획 기간 중 벼농사와 전북행정: 1972-1981

Abstract

This paper aims to describe the characters of public administration in the Jeonbuk Province with rice farming during the period when the Korean Government executed the 3rd and the 4th Economic Development Plan from 1972 to 1981 and sought the self-sufficiency in staples grain as a major object of the government. The data used in this paper are from the Jeonbuk Provincial office’s publication, a major newspaper in Jeonbuk province and interview with retired public officers of the Jeonbuk province. The chief executive officers of Jeonbuk Provincial Office gave policy priorities to economic development with agriculture and industry parallel, deepening Saemaul Movement, scientific management of agriculture, raising farm income, including unifying as whole and national security. The Jeonbuk Provincial Office expanded organizations related with agriculture. The organizations for agricultural development enlarged than the organizations for industrial development. In the financial aspect, public organizations in Jeonbuk province including the provincial office, municipal offices and county offices spent much more agricultural development than industrial development. The Jeonbuk public administrative organizations under the central government’s control and policy direction mobilized street-level public organizations, middle and high schools, volunteer groups like 4-H, etc for rice farming and the self-sufficiency in staples grain. Jeonbuk public administration was a mobilization system for rice farming.