This study is a comparative analysis of agricultural productivity in the farm economy between Korea and Japan. The farms in Korea and Japan altogether have very small scales with around lha of arable land. Nevertheless the land productivity of the far...
This study is a comparative analysis of agricultural productivity in the farm economy between Korea and Japan. The farms in Korea and Japan altogether have very small scales with around lha of arable land. Nevertheless the land productivity of the farmers in Japan is 1.5 times higher than that of Korea. This is not because of the natural and social conditions in agriculture, but because of the difference in the economic development between two countries. This analysis implicates that the productivity of the Korean farmers can be increased without enlarging the land scale. However we note that the Korean farmers should make the new agricultural production system with capital intensive and high technology production.