Farmers Education Participation and Its Related Variables - Exploring the Changes Since 2006 Agricultural Education Reform
2014
Ma, S.J., Korea Rural Economic Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea
This study was to investigate farmers participation in education, to identify the related variables, and to explore the change since 2006 agricultural education reform which was launched by government. For the purpose, this study carried out a survey on 653 farmers. Survey results indicated farmers education participation had expanded since 2006, while high participants share of total educational opportunities had increased. Most of farmers educational motives were goal-oriented and learning-oriented rather than action-oriented. Farmers barriers to participation of education were mainly related with accessibility; farmers educational participations were different according to gender, age, education, return migrating, and educational motive: women, young, high-educated, urban-rural migrating, learning and goal oriented farmers were more active participating in education than men, old, low-educated, native, action-oriented farmers. Also, farmers education attendances depended on years of farming experience, commodity, farm scale, farming background, and producer organizations participation: relatively short-term experience, livestock and fruits farming, large farm scale, non-farming background, producer-organization member farmers were more active education participants than long-term experience, grains farming, small farm scale, farm-succeeding, non producer-organization member farmers. Tobit regression showed that the most explainable variable to farmers agricultural education participation was farmers educational motive. In addition, future study on farmer learning and farming work related variables and farmer education participation and motive relationship was suggested.
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