Agriculture in Korea 2020

Abstract

본 보고서는 한국 농업의 자원 및 구조, 농업 및 농업 관련 산업들의 동향을 살피고 한국농업에 대한 미래 전망과 비전을 해외 독자들에게 소개한다.

The Korea Rural Economic Institute has published Agriculture in Korea to share implications in Korea’s agricultural experiences through development stages, including smallholding, the Green Revolution (food self-sufficiency), responses to agricultural market opening, and endeavors to achieve sustainable farming. After the first edition in 1999, KREI published the following issues in 2008, 2010, and 2015. This book is the fifth edition published for 2020.

Agriculture in Korea 2020 introduces the state of Korea’s agriculture and rural communities and deals with core issues to enhance sustainability in agriculture to raise readers’ understanding in Korean agriculture. The core issues newly covered in this book include policy directions for agricultural sustainability, policies related to food consumption behavior changes, the application of the 4th industrial revolution technologies to agriculture, countermeasures to climate change, the direct payment programs, and the state of foreign workers in Korea.