Agricultural land policies

Agricultural Development Region (農業振興地域制度) in Korea

CHAE Gwang-suk, Sung-Jae Chun
1. Changes in policies regarding agricultural perpetuation The progress of urbanization and industrialization due to economic development in the 1960s increased the demand of non-agricultural uses on farmlands. This led farmlands to quickly transform from agricultural to urban use. This is...
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural land policies
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Policy Analysis of Implementation on "Small Landlord Big Tenant" in Taiwan

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
I. Background Taiwan is a densely populated country. The total size of its farmland is around 0.8 million hectares. The number of farm households is about 0.78 million, with an averaged 1.03 hectares farmland per household. Compared with those major agricultural production countries, such as the...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural land policies
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Council of Agriculture to Amend the Law Preventing Market Speculations on Farmlands

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Min-Hsien Yang, Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan I Han, Assistant Professor, Feng Chia University, Taiwan     The current real estate market in Taiwan has turned its spotlight to the farmland sector. Expected superior return encourages more and more speculated investment in...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural land policies
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Amendments of the Agricultural Land Act and Measures for Tackling the Idle Farmland Problem

Kunio Nishikawa
Kunio Nishikawa College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Japan   INTRODUCTION The idle farmland[1] problem is one of the most significant policy matters in Japanese agricultural policy. The increase in idle farmlands makes difficult to achieve the target of food self-sufficiency...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural land policies
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The Japanese Government’s Proposal on the Agricultural Committee Reform

Kunio Nishikawa
Kunio Nishikawa College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Japan   INTRODUCTION The larger idle farmlands have increased, the more strongly it has been insisted that the function of the Agricultural Committee (AC) should be strengthened as “a guardian of farmland”. In my...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural land policies
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