농업·농촌의 공익기능에 대한 우선순위 결정

Priority Decision of Public Benefit Function for Agriculture and Rural Area

The purpose of this study is to categorize and weigh the public benefits of agriculture and rural area. Data surveyed from 66 experts from November to mid-December 2020 was analyzed by Fuzzy Decision Making Analysis (FDMA). From this, the weights of five categories (divided into twenty-one sub-categories) of the public benefit function were calculated. The order of weights is food security (0.254), environmental and ecological conservation (0.243), community maintenance and socioeconomic functions (0.181), landscape and cultural traditional maintenance (0.171), and recreational healing functions (0.151). The results might imply that FDMA is a useful, accurate, and economical valuation method to assess the public benefit functions of agriculture and rural area compared with the conventional valuation methods.