농업경영개선을 위한 지역단위 경영조직화의 연구과제

Identifying Research Agendas to Improve Farm Management by Organizing Regional and Local Farms

The purpose of this paper is to provide the research agendas how to organize regional and local farms by recognizing farm business problems based on the changes of characteristics of these agricultural business entities. When it comes to identifying current farm business changes, the mainstream is switching from individual agricultural households to agricultural firms, i.e., agribusiness. Thus, the major interests of the current researches for farm management include, but not limited to, performance and/or farm scale improvements and organizing regional and local farms. However, there is a lack of studies dealing with roles and functions of individual farms. While the researches regarding agribusiness may focus more on agricultural supply and economic efficiency, agricultural multi-functionality or non-trade concerns must be considered by the researches to improve the functions and services individual farms provide. In addition, organizing regional and local farms can be viewed as an efficient way to support individual farms since supporting farm entities at the level of individual household is limited due to the lack of institutional and policy efficiency.