In the Process of Multilateral Trade Negotiations(The Uruguay Round), national consensus have been made up from the viewpoint of as below, 1) the import liberalization of Korean agriculture is an unavoidable trend, whether willing or not, and 2) the d...
In the Process of Multilateral Trade Negotiations(The Uruguay Round), national consensus have been made up from the viewpoint of as below, 1) the import liberalization of Korean agriculture is an unavoidable trend, whether willing or not, and 2) the degree of import liberalization will be expanded, whether U.R. negotiation being compromised or not, 3) the difficulties of Korean agriculture will be made severer than current situations.
The reasons of difficulties in the fields of agriculture and rural areas should be found basically in the side of choosing the developmental ideology, pursueing the rapid industrialization prior to agricultural sector and urbanization to rural areas.
Though Industrialization and Urbanization have been accomplished sucessfully in the three decades from 1960 to 1990, the potentialities of self-sustain abilities in the sector of agriculture and rural areas have been weekened to the worst condition. Social costs by overpopulation in urban area such as heavy traffic, housing, educational and medical problems having been increased while depopulation in rural areas, the idle acrage of cultivated land having been increased and the rate of improvement of productivity been stagnated.
The unbalanced developmental stratege should be reconsidered and readjusted between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors and between rural and urban regions.
The developmental ideology based upon pursueing 「Efficiency」in the past years of developmental decades should be changed to the strategy of balance development based upon realizing 「Equity」 on the inter-industrial sectors and inter-regions.