농기계 임대사업소 적정개수 추정에 관한 연구

A Research on Estimation of Appropriate Number of Farm Machine Leasing Centers

The project to supply farm machines to growers as a lease was initiated by the government in 2003. Local governments which are financially supported by the central government purchased machines and leased them to farmers at a lower cost. The project has been welcomed by producers because they did not have to purchase high-price machines to manage farms. The government has also encouraged local governments to adopt the project with a purpose of promoting mechanization of upland-field crops, which has been considerably low compared to rice. The number of leasing centers operated by local governments was 379 in 2015, and will be increased to 820 by 2025. However, there have few researches for appropriate number of leasing centers, namely, whether the current number of leasing centers is sufficient or how many leasing centers are needed, if not sufficient. We calculated the appropriate number of leasing centers under some restricted assumptions.