현단계 농지문제와 그 해결 방향 = The Farmland Problems and the Policy Directions to Solve the Problems

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was conducted to clarify the current farmland problems in Korean agriculture and to suggest the policy directions to solve the problems. Major findings of the study are as follows :
1. We can summarize the current farmland problems as the growing domination of capital over farmland and the crisis of the owner-operated land property system established by the Farmland Reform.
1) The farmland price has increased to the level of highly exceeding the land price based on agricultural rent due to the exterior factors such as the rapid increase of the urban land price and the encroachment on the farmland by the capital. And this tendency acts as the driving force to make the owner-operated land property system to change in quality and to collapse.
2) Since 1980s more and more farmlands have been owned by non-farmers. The tenancy of farmlands has rapidly increased and the owner-operated land property system is being broken down. The enlargement of the tenancy of the farmlands is due to such factors as the pressure toward the farm-size enlargement, the agricultural mechanization, the high farmland price, the tendency toward possessing farmland as an asset, and the growing ownership of farmlands by non-farmers.
3 ) nd the crisis of the owner-operated land property system in deepening by the contradiction between the new productive forces achieved by the farm mechanization and the peasant farming system.
2. We must reorganize the farmland ownership and utilization to overcome the crisis of the owner-operated landed property system.
1) To secure the farmland sufficiently, [the Agricultural Promoting Area] must be enlarged and the encroachment on the farmland be regulated more strictly.
2) The qualification of farmland ownership and the dealings regulations must not be relaxed excessively.
3) More powerful measures to press non-farmers to sell their farmlands must be taken.
4) The land policy to stabilize land price and the system to collect capital gains by the increase of land price must be more strengthened.
5) The rights of tenants must be more strengthened. And the way to manage and utilize the farmlands in a region collectively must be found.