米穀生産費의 投入要素變化에 關한 硏究 = Recent Changes in the Component of Cost of Rice Production and Implication for Technological Innovation

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Theories of agricultural development imply that resource endowments exert a strong influence on the change of technology in agriculture. Technology in agriculture is generally expressed in terms of combinative ratio of labour, land, and capital in production. In spite of large number of off-farm migration experienced through the recent economic development process, technological innovations in rice production have not been successfully performed due to many prevailing restrictions such as size of farm land and capital shortage of individual farms.
This study aimed to find factors relating to changes in the component of cost of rice production based on the statistical cost data, and to obtain implications of these changes for technological and institutional innovations. Recently in rice production to overcome farm labour shortage, farm mechanization in the various form of cropper operation is being practiced in many areas.
The results revealed in the analysis are summarized as follows:
1) In the cost of rice production of 1993, the proportion of farm machinery cost was 14.5% and that of 1 abour cost was as high as 29.1%. As the proportion of cost of farm land calculated in terms of opport unity cost was accounted as high as 39.4%, expansion of farm size by purchasing farm land seems to be highly restricted.

2) Labour hour input for rice production in 1993 was decreased as much as 42% compared to 1965.
The proportion of family labour was increased to 88% in 1993 as compared to 78.5% in 1965.
The proportion of female labour input is almost getting close to that of male labour in 1993.
3) In order to increase labour productivity under such situation where additional acquisition of land purchasing is being restricted, some innovations such as custom hired operation or contracted fee operation by croppers in entrepreneur system of operation need to be considered for policy context. Policy support for stabilizing their revenue needs to maintain adequate number of large scale operating croppers in the major rice producing areas.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 問題의 提起
• Ⅱ. 農業構造의 變化와 槪況
• 1. 農業構造調整의 必要性
• 2. 土地利用構造의 變化
• 3. 農業勞動力 利用의 變化
• 4. 農業資本材의 變化
• Ⅲ. 米穀生産費 分析과 改善方向
• 1. 生産費의 槪念
• 2. 生産費 分析
• 3. 水稻作 農家의 經營改善 方案
• Ⅳ. 要約 및 結論
• 參考文獻
• ABSTRACT