Agricultural land policies

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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