The government has built up the rural-industrial complex since 1984, with the Law for the Encouragement of Exploitation of Peasant’s and Fisher’s Income Source enacted at the end of 1983, to achieve the balanced economic development of farming and...
The government has built up the rural-industrial complex since 1984, with the Law for the Encouragement of Exploitation of Peasant’s and Fisher’s Income Source enacted at the end of 1983, to achieve the balanced economic development of farming and fishing villages by exploiting farmer’s and fisher’s income source and increasing their income through inviting the establishment of manufacturing factories and service firms. The rural-industrial complexes created until 1988 are 122 ones. But few of the factories or firms have relation to the agricultural products, and none of them are operated with the villagers’s money be the villagers themselves. The factories and firms cstablished in the complexes, though they have received active support from the government, have had a great difficulties in securing the necessary labor powers, because they have not been supplied with their needed labor powers from rural areas where they are located. They cannot get not only the skilled labor but simple labor adequate to their needs; the simple labor is difficult to secure, since it flows into the agricultural work in the busy season for farmers. The factories and firms have been built up in rural areas with an eye to the low wages. Therefore, though employment are extended a little in rural areas, the wages they earn is very low. The employed villagers of the 7 model complexes established since 1984 are only 44% of the total employees and their monthly wages around 200,000, with which they cannon mark their livings. Under such conditions, they remain part-time peasants tilling the soil on the other side and their farm work cannot be done properly. Thus the specialized peasants (rich peasants), who are not engaged in the gactories, came to experience the grave lack of labor power. Consequently both of the rural-industrial complexes and the farms became difficult to operate, and only the employed works receive a little benefit by earning their low wages. Therefore, the project to increase the rural-industrial complex to 350 until 1993 and employ a million villagers of rural areas should be modified. The establishment of rural-industrial complexes must be pushed forward in collaboration with the local community development plan along with the national laud development plan and the measures for the improvement of agricultural structure, which should be preceded by or run paralled with the measures to make the farms large-sized for the mechanized full-sized operation and the labor powers left after the farm operation absorbed into the industrial complexes.