Korea

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Crop Insurance Program in Korea

Yutsai Huang, Ph.D. Director, Food and Fertilizer Technology Center As a result of climate change, rainfall patterns shift or extreme events such as drought and floods become more frequent. Crop insurance is therefore a key in assisting farmers lessen the negative financial impact or...

Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural risk management

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Korean Government Promotes Direct Marketing of Agricultural Products

Yutsai Huang

Yutsai Huang, Ph.D. Director, Food and Fertilizer Technology Center In small farm household countries, farm products take many distribution stages from farm gates to consumers. The huge gap between farmers’ income and retail price has been the point of criticism for many years....

Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural marketing policy

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Farmland Bank Project of Korea Rural Community Corporation (KRC)

Sung-Jae Chun

Sung-Jae Chun Public-Service Advocate of Korea 1. Introduction on the Farmland Bank Project (1) Purposes The purposes of the farmland bank project are to achieve optimal size for farmland scale, efficient usage of farmlands, improvement of the agricultural structure and the stabilization of...

Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural land policies

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Providing the real transaction prices of farmland in Korea

Jeong-bin Im

Dr. Jeongbin Im Professor Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development College of Agricultural and Life Science Seoul National University Seoul, Korea E-mail: jeongbin@snu.ac.kr The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) announced that...

Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural land policies

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