농업인의 고령화에 대응한 농업구조정책의 방향

• Published in: 농촌경제 Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 1 - 16
• Main Author: 김수석
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 한국농촌경제연구원 30.10.2008
• Subjects: agricultural structure; Chayanov; handing over farmlands; 농업경제학; 농업구조; 농지경영이양; 차야노프
• ISSN: 1229-8263; 2713-9506
• DOI: 10.36464/jrd.2008.31.4.001

The purposes of this study are to analyze the current agricultural structure through the examination of agricultural land per household and to suggest political tasks to improve the agricultural structure. The average size of farmland per household resulted by land circulation has not been increasing recently, but rather slightly decreased since 2004. It is mainly because the decrease rate of farm households is not high enough to exceed the decrease rate of agricultural land. In the year 2007, the average size of farmland per household is estimated to have been 1.45ha. In order to improve the agricultural structure, two measures on handing over farmlands should be phased in as follows: first, the introduction of a handover project for farmers over 75 years of age as primary subjects and, second, the continuation of handover projects for farmers over 70 years and for farmers over 65 years of age as next subjects.