10 Agricultural Policy Strategies and 30 Tasks for the Future

Abstract

10 Agricultural Policy Strategies and 30 Tasks

1. Increase the people’s trust by stably supplying safe agri-food ○ Task 1: Establish an environment-friendly production environment ○ Task 2: Secure the safety of agri-food ○ Task 3: Maintain the base of farmland to stably produce agricultural products

2. Provide happiness to the people through sympathy with various values of agriculture and rural areas ○ Task 1: Increase the people’s closeness level with agriculture ○ Task 2: Expand social farming ○ Task 3: Spread the social value of abundant forest resources

3. Make agriculture satisfying by stabilizing farm management and income and training the workforce ○ Task 1: Preserve income through the direct payment program and stabilize management through insurance ○ Task 2: Secure the management safety net by supporting management recovery and increasing disaster insurance ○ Task 3: Strengthen policy for returning to farming and establishing agriculture-related businesses and systematize programs for training the agricultural workforce

4. Create jobs by utilizing agricultural and rural conditions ○ Task 1: Create social jobs in rural areas linked with culture, education, and welfare services ○ Task 2: Create jobs for young people through activities of rural vitalization support groups ○ Task 3: Increase jobs by boosting rural convergence industries

5. Improve the quality of rural life by vitalizing communities and enhancing welfare ○ Task 1: Customize rural social welfare and improve support for public assistance ○ Task 2: Build a rural delivery system of social welfare and medical services ○ Task 3: Vitalize social services led by local communities

6. Make beautiful, pleasant rural areas ○ Task 1: Establish rural plans in which agricultural production infrastructure, settlement environments, and landscape are in harmony ○ Task 2: Make pleasant spaces where centers and surrounding villages are linked ○ Task 3: Encourage farm activities for maintaining rurality

7. Improve agricultural policy performance through decentralization ○ Task 1: Divide roles of central and local governments and specify their authority and responsibility ○ Task 2: Create an efficient system for regional agricultural policy implementation and promote governance ○ Task 3: Strengthen the central government’s support base for decentralization

8. Use finances efficiently by improving the agricultural investment and loan system and the tax system ○ Task 1: Improve the efficiency of policy loans ○ Task 2: Differentiate support strategies by type of policy funds and by growth stage of agricultural enterprises ○ Task 3: Establish the foundation for tax system improvement to increase agricultural competitiveness

9. Respond to the fourth industrial revolution and create new growth engines ○ Task 1: Strengthen the private sector’s technical innovation capacity and create an ecosystem for technology-based business start-up ○ Task 2: Innovate the agri-food R&D system ○ Task 3: Promote new growth engine industries

10. Strengthen the capacity to respond to the international situation ○ Task 1: Seek ways to respond to the international trade environment, climate change and so on ○ Task 2: Expand Korean agriculture through fruitful overseas agricultural development and international agricultural development and cooperation projects ○ Task 3: Promote inter-Korean agricultural cooperation