Farmland Consolidation in Korea

Agricultural policy makers of Korea have made great efforts to maintain a certain level of annual rice production. They have devised several legislative measures. However, the net amount of the agricultural land and rural population is still decreasing. Korean efforts to secure food comprises two ways, farmland manipulation and farming technique improvement. The farmland manipulation means promotion of farming environment by changing the topography of land. It involves widening farm roads, equipping with better irrigation and land consolidaton. The paper shows the procedures, instruments, legal and organisational framework, and proposed methodologies from the lessons of the unique Korean way of land consolidation