Korea

For Sustainable Future: “A Seed Matters”

Beom-seok Lee
Submitted as a country report for the 26th East Asian Agriculture Organization Council (EAOC) Top Level Meeting on Sept. 28-30, 2016, Taipei, Taiwan (The content is posted in pdf file.  Please click pdf icon  above).
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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Non-tariff Barriers of TPP Nations for Exports of Korea Strawberries

Byoung-Hoon Lee
INTRODUCTION Beginning with the FTA with Chile in 2002, Korea has signed 14 FTAs with 53 countries as of May 2016, and its proportion of FTA trade volume is expected to be over half the total trade volume. Some expect a large increase in regional exports if the FTAs are actively utilized, but...
Country: Korea Topic: Trade liberalization and countermeasures
4,813
183

Farmers Awareness on Crop Natural Disaster Insurance and Field Cases in Korea

Chil-koo Choi, Doo-jong Hwa
ABSTRACT The survey of 611 farmers was conducted to provide insights on Korea’s crop insurance. The types of major disasters that the respondents experienced consist of typhoons, heavy rainfall, pests and diseases, etc. They were informed of crop insurance through various sources, such as...
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural risk management
3,090
139

Claim Adjustments in Korea’s Crop Natural Disaster Insurance

Hyunsung Yoon
ABSTRACT Crop insurance in South Korea has played an important role for stable farm management since 2001 with two crops, apple and pear, as an initial demonstration of insurance. It has been expanded to fifty crops as of 2016. As the number of crops which is covered by agricultural insurance is...
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural risk management
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The Performance and Improvement Strategies of Crop Natural Disaster Insurance in Korea

Won-ho Chung
ABSTRACT Crop natural disaster insurance program in Korea has rapidly grown not only in quantity but in quality for 15 years since it was introduced in 2001. Number of agricultural items covered by the program was expanded from two in 2001 to 46 in 2015 and number of participating farmers...
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural risk management
5,695
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