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8KFFTC-MARDI International Seminar on Cultivating the Young Generation of Farmers with Farmland Policy Implications
Rationale:
The aging problem among agricultural farmers is severe in the Asian and Pacific region. In Japan, Korea and Taiwan, for instance, the ratio of the aged farmers to the total farm household population are 34.3%, 31.8% and 31.2%, respectively in 2010. In Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, the ratio of aging farmers are increasing while young farmers are decreasing. Aging farmers have much difficulty in finding successors for their farming business.
There are many reasons why the younger generation does not to want to engage themselves in farming. Some of these reasons include low income, poor working conditions, inferior children’s education environment and poor healthcare system in the rural areas. But one of the main difficulties of the young generation’s entry into farming involves its close relations to the farmlands.
Farmlands are prerequisites for agriculture and are considered farming symbols. In wide and long-term perspectives, there is no doubt that agriculture depends on land, and that this distinguishes the sector from most other kinds of businesses. But the problem is the price of farmland is too expensive for the young beginners and finding the appropriate leased farmland is also very difficult especially those who want to start farming with leased farmland. These are serious bottlenecks to the next generation who want to farm and to increase farm size.
Some countries such as Korea have active farmland programs for young farmers to enter into farming and to increase their farm size without much difficulty. They do it through the farmland bank system. Similar policies have been applied in Japan and Taiwan while other countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia have different program for beginners to prepare farmlands like Land Contract Guarantee Program and Agriculture Entrepreneur Development Program, respectively. This kind of policy method will be introduced in detail and discussed in this seminar.
Objectives:
This seminar aims to find a better way for governments to prepare the appropriate policies for young beginners to purchase or rent farmlands or for existing young farmers to increase their farmland size.
Proposed seminar topics:
- Farmland policy for young generation: purchasing and leasing
- Farmland bank program for young generation
- Farmland scale-up policy for next generation
- Orchard scale-up program
- Direct payment program for next generation
- Farmland pension program
Major findings/recommendations:
- Study how governments in Asian countries developed models to enhance farmland bank access and make this as a guide for policymaking ;
- Compile and document the experiences of Malaysia’s Young Entrepreneurs through their “Blue Ocean Strategy” and Thailand’s “New Development Program” and share this with the rest of our Asian neighbors;
- Incorporate the concept of agricultural entrepreneurship in school curriculums so that the young generation can have a deep appreciation of farming;
- Develop ways to optimize small pieces of land into productive ways and encourage use of high yielding, early maturing and drought and flood tolerant plant varieties;
- Study how the governments of other countries allocated areas for agri farmlands and provided subsidies for young farmers to encourage them to engage in farming;
- Strengthen farmers cooperatives and associations through business and marketing education; and
- Encourage the conduct of fora and meetings for young farmers so that they can communicate with each other and develop their own markets and networks.
Program
2015 FFTC-MARDI International Seminar on
Cultivating the Young Generation of Farmers with Farmland Policy Implications
to be held in MARDI, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, 25-29 May 2015.
May 26, 2015 (Tuesday) | |||
09:00-09:30 | Registration (MARDI, Serdang) | ||
| Opening Ceremony (concurrent with Young Agropreneur Local Seminar) | ||
09:30-10:00 | Welcoming Address: HE Dato’ Dr. Sharif Haron, Director General, MARDI Opening Remarks: Dr. Yu-Tsai Huang, Director, FFTC Officiating Speech : HE Dato’ Sri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, Minister, Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based Industries, Malaysia Group Photograph | ||
10:00-10:20 | Tea/Coffee Break | ||
Session І-1 | Resource Papers | Moderator: Dr. Marilyn M. ELAURIA | |
10:20-10:50 | Farmland-access Policy for Young Generation of Farmers Dr. Sen-Tyan LIN, Professor | ||
10:50-11:00 | Q&A | ||
11:00-11:30 | The Income Stratification of Rural Households and the Income Instability of Young Farmers in Korea Dr. Taeho LEE, Professor | ||
11:30-11:40 | Q&A | ||
11:40-12:10 | Land concentration and Land Market in Japan: An International Perspective Dr. Shinsaku NAKAJIMA, Senior Assistant Professor | ||
12:10-12:20 | Q&A | ||
12:20-12:50 | Policy on Land in Malaysia for Young Agropreneurs through Blue Ocean Strategy Mr. Mohd Arif Bin ADENAN, Director | ||
12:50-13:00 | Q&A | ||
13:00-14:30 | Lunch Break | ||
Session І-2 | Country Papers | Moderator: Mr. Soudchay NHOUYVANISVONG | |
14:30-15:00 | Farmland Bank in Korea Dr. Kyung-An YIM, Deputy Director | ||
15:00-15:10 | Q&A | ||
15:10-15:40 | Farmland Policy for Young Generation in Myanmar: Purchasing and Leasing Dr. Mar Mar KYU, Emeritus Professor | ||
15:40-15:50 | Q&A | ||
15:50-16:20 | Family Farming and Farmland Policy in Vietnam: Current Situation and Perspective Dr. NGUYEN Dang Minh Chanh, Head of Sciences and International Cooperation, Center for Agrarian Systems Resea4rch and Development (CASRAD), Field Crops Research Institute, Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS) | ||
16:20-16:30 | Q&A | ||
16:30-17:00 | Tea/Coffee Break | ||
18:00-20:00 | Sightseeing - Putrajaya | ||
20:00-22:00 | Welcome Dinner Hosted by Dato’ Dr. Sharif Haron, Director General, MARDI | ||
May 27, 2015 (Wednesday) | |||
Session ІІ-1 | Country Papers Moderator: Dr. Sen-Tyan LIN | ||
09:30-10:00 | Farmland Policy and Financing Program for Young Generation in the Philippines Dr. Marilyn M. ELAURIA, Professor | ||
10:00-10:10 | Q&A | ||
10:10-10:40 | MARDI Facilities for Young Generation Entrepreneur Mr. Khairul Asfamawi KHULIDIN, Senior Research Officer | ||
10:40-10:50 | Q&A | ||
10:50-11:10 | Tea/Coffee Break | ||
Session ІІ-2 | Country Papers Moderator: Dr. Mar Mar Kyu | ||
11:10-11:40 | Farmland Policy in Indonesia for Young Generation Dr. Syahyuti, Rural Sociologist | ||
11:40-11:50 | Q&A | ||
11:50-12:20 | Succession of Farmlands to Non-family Successors: Options for the Young Generation of Farmers Mr. Tasuku NAGATANI, Research Fellow | ||
12:20-12:30 | Q&A | ||
12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break | ||
Session ІІ-3 | Country Papers Moderator: Mr. Mohd Arif Bin ADENAN | ||
14:00-14:30 | New Farmer Development in Agricultural Land Reform Area in Thailand Mr. Winai MEKDUM, Director | ||
14:30-14:40 | Q&A | ||
14:40-15:10 | Youth in Agriculture and Rural Development in Lao PDR Mr. Soudchay NHOUYVANISVONG, Director | ||
15:10-15:20 | Q&A | ||
15:20-15:40 | Tea/Coffee Break | ||
15:40-16:10 | The Restructuring Policy of Agro-manpower and Farmland in Taiwan Dr. Chen-Te HUANG, Deputy Director | ||
16:10-16:20 | Q&A | ||
Session ІІ-4 | General Discussion Moderators: Dr. Taeho LEE Dr. Shinsaku NAKAJIMA | ||
16:20-17:10 | General Discussion | ||
17:10-17:20 | Conclusion | ||
17:20-17:35 | Introduction of MARDI | ||
17:35-17:45 | Introduction of FFTC | ||
18:00-20:00 | Appreciation Dinner Hosted by Dr. Yu-Tsai Huang, Director, FFTC | ||
Resources Papers
Farmland-access Policy for Young Generation of Farmers
Dr. Sen-Tyan LIN, Professor
Dept. of Law, School of Humanities and Social Science, Kainan University, Taiwan
The Aging of Agriculture and the Income Instability of Young Farmers in Korea 
Dr. Taeho LEE, Professor
Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, College of Agriculture & Life Science, Seoul National University, Korea
Land concentration and Land Market in Japan: An International Perspective
Dr. Shinsaku NAKAJIMA, Senior Assistant Professor
Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy, School of Agriculture Meiji University, Japan
Policy on Land Farms in Malaysia for Young Agropreneurs through Blue Ocean Strategy
Mr. Mohd Arif Bin ADENAN, Director
National Blue Ocean Strategy (NBOS) & Young Agropreneur Unit, Ministry of Agriculture, Malaysia
Country Papers
Farmland Bank in Korea
Dr. Kyung-An YIM, Deputy Director
Office of Farmland Bank, Korea Rural Community Corporation (KRC), Korea
Farmland Policy for Young Generation in Myanmar: Purchasing and Leasing
Dr. Mar Mar KYU, Emeritus Professor
Dept. of Agronomy, Yezin Agricultural University, Myanmar
Family Farming and Farmland Policy in Vietnam: Current Situation and Perspective
Dr. NGUYEN Dang Minh Chanh, Head of Sciences and International Cooperation
Center for Agrarian Systems Research and Development (CASRAD), Food Crops Research Institute (FCRI), Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS)
Farmland Policy and Financing Program for Young Generation in the Philippines
Dr. Marilyn M. ELAURIA, Professor
Dept. of Agricultural Economics, College of Economics and Management, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines
MARDI Facilities for Young Generation Entrepreneur
Mr. Khairul Asfamawi KHULIDIN, Senior Research Officer
Youth Agroprenuer Programme, Technology Promotion and Development Center, Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), Malaysia
Farmland Policy in Indonesia for Young Generation
Dr. SYAHYUTI, Rural Sociologist
Indonesian Center for Agricultural Socio Economic and Policy Studies (ICASEPS), Indonesia
Succession of Farmlands to Non-family Successors: Options for the Young Generation of Farmers
Mr. Tasuku NAGATANI, Research Fellow
Dept. of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture
Kyoto University, Japan
New Farmer Development in Agricultural Land Reform Area in Thailand
Mr. Winai MEKDUM, Director
New Farmer and Youth Farmer Development Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Thailand
Needs and Potential for Rural Youth Development in Lao PDR
Mr. Soudchay NHOUYVANISVONG, Director
International Cooperation Division, Department of Planning and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Lao PDR
The Restructuring Policy of Agro-manpower and Farmland in Taiwan
Dr. Chen-Te HUANG, Deputy Director
Dept. of Planning, Council of Agriculture (COA), Executive Yuan, Taiwan
MARDI Collaborates with FFTC on Seminar Regarding Young Generation of Farmers
