The developed countries have plotted the income stability of farmhouses through the various direct payment programs as well as agricultural policies such as market loan programs relevant to their countries since Uruguay Round Agreement. But Korea rece...
The developed countries have plotted the income stability of farmhouses through the various direct payment programs as well as agricultural policies such as market loan programs relevant to their countries since Uruguay Round Agreement. But Korea recently starts to discuss on the introduction of direct payment programs only as a small part of the comprehensive agricultural development plan. The direct payment programs for rice-farmhouses are needed to prepare for the rapidly changed agricultural environment to compensate income loss according to decrement of AMS, to strengthen the self-supporting bases for rice, to equalize the income deficiency between city and agricultural area, to encourage the motive for continuous cultivation and to progress the competition ability of production in rice market. So, it is necessary to make direct payment programs of government be serviceable considering the production neutrality, the relevance between before- and after-program, the governmental finance for payment programs, and the equity of government`s income payment policy between for agricultural progress areas and for other areas. To achieve this purpose of direct payment programs, government should be careful but propulsive in calculating the amount of direct payment to repay income deficiency of rice farmhouses according to decrement of AMS and governmental rice purchase.