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  Price	Consumer

Agricultural Product

• Farm Machinery
• Possession of power tiller, the most widely spread dan versatile equipment, is lessening after having peaked out in its number in 1998 because farm tractors, which are more convenient to use are replacing them. The total number of farm tractors and power tillers comes to 1,233,000 units as of 2003, which implies that 95 per 100 farm households has the equipment.

• No. of main farm machinery in possession

  (Unit: 1,000 units)

• No. of main farm machinery in possession

  Year	cultivator	tractor	rice-transplanter	combine	controller	power sprayer	water pump
  1970	12	1	0	0	0	45	54
  1980	290	3	11	14	0	331	194
  1990	756	41	138	44	51	680	342
  1995	869	100	248	72	240	683	385
  1997	946	131	303	74	316	660	397
  1999	954	176	336	84	369	598	309
  2000	939	192	342	87	379	600	293
  2001	922	201	342	87	380	612	325
  2003	857	211	335	87	376	610	320

• Mechanization rate of rice farming as of ,02

  (Unit: %)

• Mechanization rate of rice farming as of ,02

  	Plowing, leveling	Rice-planting	Harvesting	Drying	Spraying
  Average	98.8	98.4	99.1	48.5	99.6
  suburban	100	95.5	99.9	47.4	100
  Field area	99.7	97.8	100	53.2	99.8
  Quasi mountainous areas	99.0	99.2	98.6	48.1	99.4
  Mountainous areas	95.9	98.4	97.6	38.4	99.6

• Supply of Fertilizer & agricultural Chemicals
• Use of chemical fertilizer per ha. increased by 183% from 162kg in 1970 to 458kg in 1990, but decreased by 21% to 350kg in 2003. Nevertheless, the use is still regarded as high and the government continues its
  hard effort to reduce the use of chemical fertilizer.
  On the other hand, instead of reducing the use of chemical fertilizer, efforts are made to protect the soil
  by utilizing livestock and poultry waste as compost and by distributing soil conditioner.

• Production of chemical fertilizer

  (Unit: 1,000M/T)

• Production of chemical fertilizer

  	Total output	self-sufficiency (%)	Nitrogen	self-sufficiency(%)	Phosophoric acid	self-sufficiency (%)	Pottasium	self-sufficiency (%)
  1970	590	105	400	112	140	112	50	605
  1980	1,345	162	727	162	493	251	125	68
  1990	1,648	149	867	154	454	177	327	114
  1995	1,778	186	950	201	485	217	343	132
  1997	1,687	191	823	207	450	226	314	132
  1998	1,517	176	823	184	421	225	273	121
  2000	1,546	211	835	197	422	247	289	140
  2001	1,399	195	753	201	385	252	261	138
  2003	1,271	187	618	172	369	258	284	161

• Consumption of chemical fertilizer

• Consumption of chemical fertilizer

  	Total output	Component	Nitrogen	Phosophoric acid	Pottasium
  	1,000M/T	kg/ha
  1970	563	162	356	124	83
  1980	828	285	448	196	184
  1990	1,104	458	562	256	286
  1995	954	434	472	223	259
  1997	882	421	446	199	237
  1998	860	406	447	187	226
  2000	801	382	423	171	207
  2001	717	343	373	153	189
  2003	678	350	359	143	176

• Seed & Facilities
• As of august 2002, 849 patents were applied for species protection, and 326 species were registered. Of them, 252 patents or 77.3% applied, or 77.3% are food grain species.

• Patent applied for species protection & Registration status as of August. 2002

  (unit: case)

• Patent applied for species protection & Registration status as of August. 2002

  Description	Total		1998	1999	2000		2001		2002
  	patent applied	Regis- tered	patent applied	Regis- tered	patent applied	Regis- tered	patent applied	Regis- tered	patent applied	Regis- tered
  Total	849	326	224	72	94	233	221	22	238	71
  Food	314	252	178	27	30	203	41	2	38	47
  grains
  Vegetables	137	38	17	24	27	3	45	20	24	15
  Fruits	67	26	26	11	9	26	19	-	2	-
  Flowers	240	9	3	9	21	-	46	-	161	9
  Feed crops	4	1	-	1	2	1	1	-	-	-
  Special	84	-	-	-	5	-	69	-	13	-
  crops

• All seeds are permitted to be produced, sold and imported after being declared in their original names.
  Since the enactment of the SeedIndustry Act. As of 2002, the number of report of vegetables and horticulture products sales accounts for 78% of the total sales report.

• Status of report on seed production & import for sale

  (unit: case)

• Status of report on seed production & import for sale

  Description	Total	No. of Reports
  		Existing species	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
  Total	21,993	4,492	2.926	11,149	1,469	1,468	489
  Food grain	134	33	18	50	13	19	1
  Vegetalbes	5,290	1,989	581	1,187	617	674	242
  Fruits	1,945	1,032	776	14	88	31	4
  Flowers	11,985	-	1,180	9,573	443	652	137
  Special crops	134	45	26	21	23	7	12
  Feed crops	229	-	70	104	32	12	11
  Mushrooma	2,253	1,393	268	187	253	71	81
  ETC.	23	-	7	13	-	2	1

Agricultural Product

• Crop Cultivation trends
• The rate of using cultivated land is 103.9% as of 2003 which is far below 125.9% in 1980. The biggest reason for the decrease up until 1995 lies in the decrease of cultivation area for barley, which is raised in double cropping in the rice fields. Cultivation area for barley decreased from 360,000ha('80) to 90,000ha('95) and to 35,000ha('04)
  

• Use rate of cultivated & rice cultivation rate

  (unit : 1,000ha.,%)

• Use rate of cultivated & rice cultivation rate

  Year	Cultivated area(A)	Area for crop cultivation(B)	Rate of utilization(B/A)
  1980	2,196	2,765	125.9
  1985	2,144	2,592	120.9
  1990	2,109	2,409	114.2
  1995	1,985	2,197	110.7
  2000	1,889	2,098	110.9
  2001	1,876	2,087	111.4
  2002	1,863	2,020	107.6
  2003	1,846	1,936	103.9

• The cultivation trend by crops shows the continuous decrease of cultivation ratio of cereals except rice and specialty crops due to profitability change and demand change of cereals consequent upon the increase of the national income. On the other hand, the area for the greenhouse farming of high-profit
  crops and agricultural products in growing demand is increasing gradually.

• These days, farming is carried out on a large scale and commercialized rapidly. Moreover, most of the cultivated land is allocated to capital and technology-intensive farming for high-profit crops rather than low-profit ones.
  The following table shows decrease in cultivation of food and specialty crops and continuous increase in growing vegetables and fruit trees.

• 'Other crops' in the following table include mulberry, ornamental plants, flowers, medicinal crops, rice nursery and feed crops. The major reasons for the decrease of the cultivation land for other crops are the decrease of mulberry growing due to decline of silk-reeling industry and also large decrease of rice nursery due to mechanized and direct rice transplanting.

• Cultivated area by crop

  (unit : 1,000ha.,%)

• Cultivated area by crop

  Year	Total	Food Crops	Vegetables	Specialty Crops	Fruits	Orchard	Others	Facilities
  2002	2,020	1,299	251	94	162	25	88	97
  2003	1,936	1,234	245	84	158	28	85	100
  2004	1,941	1,231	256	75	152	29	94	104

• The greenhouse farming area increased 10.5 times from 11,000ha('80) to 104,000ha('04). Items for greenhouse farming were at first limited to vegetables but now are diversified into the fruits, flowers, etc. Considering income from greenhouse farming is 5-10 times more than that of field farming in the same
  size of area, the items for greenhouse farming will be diversified and expanded more in days to come.

• Area for greenhouse farming

  (unit : 1,000ha.,%)

• Area for greenhouse farming

  1980	1990	1995	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
  11	45	92	100	106	102	97	100	1074

• Rice
• Rice is the most important crop to Koreans and the vital element to consider when setting the agricultural policy. As of 2003, the ratio of rice to total agriculture production amount is 26.88%, 3.3 times that of the second largest product, pig with 8.1%. Rice accounts for as much as 41.0% out of the average agricultural income per farm household as of 2001, making it No. 1 income source for farm households.
  

• In order to help solve the absolute food shortage in the 1950~60s, the government focused on the
  increase of production, and with the introduction of a high-yield brand-new species "Tong-il (Unification) Rice" in 1971, a breakthrough was made in the production increase of agricultural products.

• ISince then, the production increase has been continuously pursued through expansion of paddy field by land reclamation programs, redevelopment of arable land and water supply, improvement of seed, and development and distribution of agricultural technology. Accordingly, rice yield per 0.1ha has grown from 330kg('70) to 56kg('85) and to 516kg('01) and so has the self-sufficiency rate for rice from 71.6%('85) to 100.0%('04)
  

• Encouraged by the production increase-oriented policy, the goal of self-sufficiency in rice was achieved. However, due to the national income growth and food diversification as a result of import liberalization of agricultural products, rice consumption has been dropped together with annual rice consumption per
  capita from 128.1kg('85) to 82.0kg('04). Consequently, the rice stock has risen leading to the change of
  the focus of the government policy from production increase to quality improvement.
  

• As for the use of the paddy field, for climate reason, doble cropping is not possible in Korea. So except
  rice cultivation period from May through October, the fields are off for the rest of the year. Sometimes in
  the southern part of the country, farmers cultivate barley during winter time or grow fruit-bearing vege
  tables in the greenhouse in suburban areas. But the portion for such practice is quite small out of total arable land.

The paddy field area reached an all time high with 1,259,000ha in 1988. Since then it has been on the decline as appropriated in large scale for the public facility zone, housing zone, industrial zone, and road.
Area for rice cultivation decreased sharply as the size of paddy field diminished.

• However, the ratio of rice cultivation to paddy field area remains unchanged because there??s no suitable substitute for rice to grow in the paddy field.
  On the other hand, rice cultivation area per farm household expanded to 1.08ha. in year 2003 from 0.66ha in 1980.

• Cultivated area for upland rice began to decrease beginning from the mid 1980s but it has been bouncing back recently thanks to the breed improvement.

• Rice cultivation area

  (Unit: 1,000ha)

• Rice cultivation area

  Year	Total(A)	Paddy field(B)	Upland	B/A(%)	Cultivated area per household(ha)
  1980	1,233	1,200	13	97.3	0.66
  1985	1,237	1,233	4	99.7	0.75
  1990	1.244	1,242	2	99.8	0.82
  1995	1,056	1,055	1	99.9	0.88
  2000	1,072	1,055	17	98.4	0.98
  2001	1,083	1,056	27	97.5	1.00
  2002	1,053	1,038	15	98.6	1.07
  2003	1,016	1,002	14	98.6	1.08

• Rice yield largely varies based on the size of the cultivation area of the year, weather condition, damage
  from disease and pests.
  Nevertheless, rice yield per unit area keeps growing with the establishment having been prepared to cope
  with drought, flood and typhoon through continuous investment; smooth supply of fertilizer and agricultural chemicals; continuous technology development; and improvement of rice breeding.
  Boosted by yield increase per unit area, total rice yield hasn??t drastically dropped in spite of decrease of rice cultivation area.
  

• trend of rice cultivation area & rice production

• trend of rice cultivation area & rice production

  Year	Production	Yield per 0.1ha	Production	Yield per 0.1ha	Production
  	1,000M/T	kg	1,000M/T	kg	1,000M/T
  1985	5,614	456	5,619	192	7
  1990	5,606	451	5,600	222	6
  1995	4,695	445	4,694	192	1
  2000	5,291	497	5,239	300	52
  2001	5,515	516	5,451	235	64
  2002	4,927	471	4,891	246	36
  2003	4,451	441	4,415	245	36
  2004	5,000	504	4,960	227	40

• Mostly rice is cultivated in paddy field rather than dry field in Korea. Therefore, the region that holds the
  most paddy field has the largest rice yield.
  

• Supply & demand of rice

  (Unit : 1,000M/T)

• Supply & demand of rice

  Year	Supply				Demand				Carry over to the next year
  	Carry over from the previous year	Pro-duction	Import	Total	For Food	For pro -cessing	For seed	Total
  1985	1,247	5,682	-	2,929	5,2597	43	199	5,501	1,428
  1990	1,572	5,898	-	7,470	5,127	80	238	5,445	2,025
  1995	1,156	5,060	-	6,216	4,777	228	552	5,557	659
  2000	722	5,263	107	6,092	4,425	175	514	5,114	978
  2001	978	5,291	217	6,486	4,209	83	759	5,151	1,335
  2002	1,335	5,515	154	7,004	4,145	337	1,075	5,557	1,447
  2003	1,447	4,927	180	6,554	3,987	313	1,111	5,455	1,099

• With respect to supply and demand for rice, until the 1980s, rice yield kept growing, leaving a large stock. However, it dropped drastically as the yield ran low in the mid 1990s as a consequence of series of natural disasters.
  

• However, recently, rice inventory is sharply increasing because supply exceeds consumption per capita
  for the following reasons: 1) since 1995, rice cultivation area has been leveled off, and the rice yield per
  unit area has increased 2) rice has been imported as much as MMA quota allocated under the U.R. Agreement since 1996.
  

• The double-price system has been applied to rice for a long time. The double-price system is a sort of protection system for both producers and consumers. Under this system, the government purchases rice
  at the price over the production cost and then sell to consumers below the government purchasing price.

• Since the mid 1990s, however, in order to prevent excessive government fiscal losses, the government
  has maintained the purchasing price increase to the minimum level and disposed the government rice through public sale.

• According to the U.R. Agreement, the government subsidy for rice was supposed to decrease by 13.3% gradually through the years till 2004 as defined by AMS. Consequently the amount of government
  purchase of rice has been gradually decreasing, too.

• trend of government purchase of rice

  (Unit : 1,000M/T)

• trend of government purchase of rice

  19801990	1985	1990	1995	2000	2001	2002	2003
  Rice production(A)	5,614	5,606	4,695	5,291	5,515	4,927	4,451
  Government purchase(B)	1,153	1,203	792	456	416	397	472
  B/A(%)	20.5	21.5	16.9	8.6	7.5	8.1	10.6

• In terms of the rice price trend, the government purchasing price annually increased by 6.9% on an
  average from 1985 to 2000.
  Overall consumer price also increased by 156.6%, similar to the overall government purchasing price increase of 154.4%. The increase rate is relatively high compared to overall consumer price index
  increase of 113.9% during the same period.

• Rice purchase and selling price

  (Unit: won)

• Rice purchase and selling price

  Year	Production price(A)	Selling	Price(B)	loss(B-A)
  			Government purchasing price Secondary class
  1995	145,822	104,500	126,700	38,436
  1998	172,080	132,000	131,770	40,080
  2000	190,640	157,040	154,000	33,600
  2001	192,480	152,100	160,160	40,380
  2003(P)	195,600	152,000	160,160	43,500

• In order to implement food grain policy without a hitch, the government had enacted the 멣pecial Account for Food Grain- Management Act in 1950 by which government food grain management had not been
  subject to the general account. In 1962, the act was abolished and since then, corporation budget account system has been applied to the special account for food grain management.

• Other Food Crops
• Among food crops except rice there are common barley, naked barley, beer barley in barely family,soybeans, red bean, green bean in pulses, sweet potato, potato, corn, millet and sorghum. The
  wheat cultivation is very little due to lack of competitiveness and in turn, its supply largely depends on import.
  

• Supply and demand of barely

  (Unit: 1,000M/T)

• Supply and demand of barely

  Year	Carry over from the previous year	Supply			Demand					Carry over to the next year	Self-sufficiency rate(%)
  		Pro-duction	Import	Total	For Food	For pro-cessing	For seed	For seed	Total
  1985	587	571	-	571	189	236	259	212	896	262	63.7
  1990	353	416	64	833	69	295	-	63	427	406	97.4
  1995	259	282	172	713	67	326	4	24	241	292	67.0
  2000	199	161	146	506	76	232	19	16	343	163	46.9
  2001	163	268	162	593	80	243	-	24	347	246	77.2
  2002	246	212	183	641	71	254	8	18	351	290	60.4
  2003	290	159	146	595	48	255	1	15	319	276	49.7
  2004(p)	276	186	206	668	48	269	31	18	366	302	50.9

• Supply & demand of wheat

  (Unit: 1,000M/T)

• Supply & demand of wheat

  Year	Carry over from the previous year	Supply			Demand					Carry over to the next year	Self-sufficiency rate(%)
  		Pro-duction	Import	Total	For Food	For pro-cessing	For seed	For seed	Total
  1985	249	11	2,996	3,256	1,005	1,031	932	20	2,988	268	0.4
  1990	237	1	2,239	2,477	903	992	98	12	2,005	472	0.05
  1995	910	10	2,777	3,697	1,070	1,024	1,225	16	3,335	362	0.3
  2000	472	2	3,266	3,740	1,363	880	1,026	20	3,279	461	0.1
  2001	461	3	3,251	3,715	1,263	887	1,051	63	3,264	451	0.1
  2002	451	6	3,830	4,287	1,294	884	1,661	36	3,875	412	0.2
  2003	412	10	3,753	4,175	1,138	932	1,656	30	3,756	419	0.3
  2004(p)	419	10	3,397	3,826	1,200	971	1,162	30	3,363	463	0.3

• Supply and demand of soybeans

  (Unit: 1,000M/T)

• Supply and demand of soybeans

  Year	Carry over from the previous year	Supply			Demand					Carry over to the next year	Self-sufficiency rate(%)
  		Pro-duction	Import	Total	For Food	For pro-cessing	For seed	For seed	Total
  1985	87	254	885	1,226	99	282	725	24	1,130	96	22.5
  1990	106	252	1,092	1,450	84	271	866	33	1,254	196	20.1
  1995	231	154	1,435	1,820	81	321	1,142	14	1,558	262	9.9
  2000	79	116	1,586	1,781	85	314	1,282	13	1,694	87	6.8
  2001	87	113	1,344	1,544	102	288	1,061	8	1,463	71	7.7
  2002	81	118	1,489	1,688	91	310	1,200	13	1,614	74	7.3
  2003	74	115	1,511	1,700	91	294	1,185	12	1,582	118	7.3
  2004(p)	118	105	1,693	1,916	82	336	1,272	10	1,710	206	6.2

• Supply & demand of corn

  (Unit: 1,000M/T)

• Supply & demand of corn

  Year	Carry over from the previous year	Supply			Demand					Carry over to the next year	Self-sufficiency rate(%)
  		Pro-duction	Import	Total	For Food	For pro-cessing	For seed	For seed	Total
  1985	275	133	3,035	3,443	67	810	2,389	21	3,245	198	4.1
  1990	572	121	6,239	6,891	3	1,466	4,949	47	6,425	466	1.9
  1995	434	89	8,879	9,402	-	1,709	6,300	57	8,066	1,336	1.1
  2000	515	79	8,888	9,482	35	2,046	6,475	57	8,613	869	0.9
  2001	869	64	8,529	9,462	58	1,950	6,449	54	8,511	951	0.8
  2002	951	57	8,620	9,628	55	1,978	6,628	36	8,697	931	0.7
  2003	931	73	8,588	9,592	71	2,004	6,593	36	8,704	888	0.8
  2004(p)	888	70	9,063	10,021	66	2,316	6,608	37	9,027	994	0.8

• Vegetables
• As national income grows, so does the demand for high quality and variety of food. In this regard, demand for vegetables is growing as it is known to be effective in prevention of geriatric diseases. traditionally, Koreans live on grains not meats. Therefore, vegetables have been consumed in large quantity.

• There are two types of vegetable cultivation: field cultivation andgreenhouse cultivation. Fruit-bearing vegetables account for over50% of greenhouse cultivation and the share is expected to increasefurther as demand grows.

• Cultivated area for vegetables & production

  (Unit: 1,000ha,? 1,000M/T)

• Cultivated area for vegetables & production

  Year	Total	Potato	Leafy-stem vegetables	Fruit-bearing	radish	Other Productions	Fruits	Flowers	Others
  2002	97	1.5	12	47	6	16	3	5	4
  2003	100	1.2	13	45	5	19	4	5	6
  2004	104	2	13	45	6	20	5	5	6

• In terms of cultivation ratio by vegetables as of 2004, fruit-bearing vegetables account for 19.1%, root vegetables for 12.8%, leafy and stem vegetables for 21.1%, spice and culinary vegetables for 47.0%.

• Among fruit-bearing vegetables, watermelon, melon, cucumber, pumpkin, tomato and strawberry have
  relatively large cultivated areas. Demand and supply for them vary according to yield and price. Fruit-bearing
  vegetables can be substituted by fruits and the demand for such products is largely growing as food consumed by Koreans becomes diversified and sophisticated.

• Radish and carrots are two typical root vegetables, which have a level of constant demand for Kimchi and seasoning. Therefore, there has been no dramatic changes in supply and demand.

• Including the representative leafy and stem vegetable, Chinese cabbages, lettuce, spinach and cabbage are cultivated in large scale. The demand for Chinese cabbage, the main ingredient for Kimchi, is
  increasing thanks to the export grow of Kimchi. Other vegetables are also growing in terms of demand as healthy diet. Demand for leafy and stem vegetables seldom decreases because of our traditional eating habit called 'Ssam'. 'Ssam' is wrapping rice or meat with leafy and stem vegetables to eat.

• Spice and culinary vegetables include pepper, garlic and onion. Since the 1990s, production of pepper has sharply increased thanks to breeding and popularization of plastic mulching cultivation. Demand for garlic
  and onion is also growing as they are recognized as healthy food, but MMA quota is increasing and thus, decreasing its local yield is anticipated.

• Cultivated area for vegetables & production

  (Unit : 1,000ha, 1,000M/T)

• Cultivated area for vegetables & production

  Year	Total		Fruit-bearing		Root Vegetable		Leafy-stem vegetables		Spice & culinary vegetables production
  	land	Product	land	Product	land	Product	land	Product	land	Product
  1985	327	6,935	40	812	42	1,668	54	3,046	191	1,409
  1990	296	8,281	54	1,257	41	1,847	62	3,676	138	1,500
  1995	374	9,685	85	2,294	42	1,593	70	3,439	177	2,359
  2000	354	10,483	68	2,407	45	1,914	73	3,745	168	2,417
  2001	335	10,496	64	2,375	43	1,885	70	3,687	158	2,548
  2003	294	9,191	58	2,215	38	1,686	67	3,262	130	2,028
  2004	301	10,062	58	2,376	38	1,790	64	3,463	142	2,434

• FRUITS
• Encouraged by national income growth, consumer taste for food becomes sophisticated, thus greatly increasing consumption for fruits. Major fruits under cultivation across the country are apple. pear, peach, grapes, tangerine and sweet persimmon, which take most of the cultivated area for fruits.

• Up until the mid 1990s, apple was the most representative fruit in Korea. But with diversification of
  consumer demand, apple consumption per capita decreased together with its yearly production. In the meantime, other major fruits grew greatly in terms of both consumption per capita and production. Among them, sweet persimmon, pear and grapes showed most increase in consumption per capita.

• Production of pear and grapes increased most as their consumption sharply grew. Thanks to the development of farming technology and breeding, production per ha. is growing every year together with total production. Tangerine also showed a big increase but is recently suffering from price fluctuation caused by over supply. For persimmon, mainly sweet persimmon increased sharply in production.

• SPECIAL CROPS
• Specialty crops under cultivation in the country are sesame, peanut, perilla seeds, and rapeseed. Their production is now decreasing due to lack of price competitiveness by far against imports from overseas thus being replaced with high-profit vegetables and fruits.
  Other major specialty crops including tobacco, ginseng and medicinal crops are being cultivated in more areas.
  

• Agricultural Production Amount
• To convert into currency value, agricultural production amount shall be multiplied by farm household
  selling prices. Food crops production amount takes the most share out of the total crop output.

• Rice accounts for the biggest percentage of the total food crop production amount. In 1990, it production accounted for 44% of the total agricultural output and doped to 31.7% in 1995 after the U.R. negotiations while vegetables and fruits relatively increased from 18.8% to 25.2 and from 7.4% to 11.7% respectively during the same period.

• However, since the rice price stabilized in 1998, the ratio of food crop production amount bounced back to 37.6% as of 2000, and in turn, that of vegetables and fruits decreased to 21.1% and 8.1% respectively.
  Yet, regarding rice, its production declined to 30.6% in 2003 as the consumption dropped, and the
  vegetable production is increasing on the other hand.
  Besides, production amount of mushrooms, flowering plants, livestock and poultry products are likely to continue increasing as the national income grows.

• Agricultural production amount by crop

  (Unit : KRW bil.)

• Agricultural production amount by crop

  Year	Total	Food	Vegetables	Fruits	medicinal Crops	Flowers	Mushrooms	Livestock products
  1985	12,253	5,569	2,242	701	34	-	16	3,122
  1990	17,697	7,779	3,323	1,309	165	239	126	3,921
  1995	25,854	8,199	6,516	3,025	301	511	315	5,958
  2000	31,827	11,959	6,724	2,581	293	539	485	8,082
  2003	31,808	9,755	7,618	2,348	423	805	417	8,869

• Ratio of agricultural production amount by crop

  (Unit : %)

• Ratio of agricultural production amount by crop

  Year	Total	Food	Vegetables	Fruits	medicinal Crops	Flowers	Mushrooms	Livestock products
  1985	100.0	45.5	18.3	5.7	0.3	0	0.1	25.5
  1990	100.0	44.0	18.8	7.4	0.9	1.4	0.7	22.2
  1995	100.0	31.7	25.2	11.7	1.2	2.0	1.2	23.0
  2000	100.0	37.6	21.1	8.1	0.9	1.7	1.5	25.4
  2003	100.0	30.6	23.9	7.3	1.3	2.6	1.3	27.8

• Rice has, by far, the most production ratio among crops. In other words, profits from rice accounts for the most percentage out of farmhouse income.
  The following is the list of the 10 largest crops locally produced in an order of production amount.

• Ratio of production by crop

  (Unit : KRW billion %)

• Ratio of production by crop

  Rank	1990			1995			2000			2003
  	Item	Pro- duc tion amo unt	Ratio	Item	Pro- duc tion amo unt	Ratio	Item	Pro- duc tion amo unt	Ratio	Item	Pro- duc tion amo unt	Ratio
  1	Rice	6,538	36.9	Rice	6,760	25.3	Rice	10,505	31.8	Rice	8,836	26.8
  2	Pork	1,174	6.6	Korean	1,776	6.6	Pork	2,372	7.2	Pork	2,681	8.1
  3	Korean beef cattle	922	5.2	beef cattle Pork	1,407	5.3	Korean beef cattle Milk	1,879 1,352	5.7 4.1	Korean beef cattle	2,463	7.5
  4	Garlic	836	4.7	Garlic	1,219	4.6	Dried red	1,044	3.2	Milk	1,479	4.5
  5	Milk	638	3.6	Dried red	1,200	4.5	Pepper	821	2.4	Dried red	816	2.5
  6	Chicken Apple	446 440	2.5 2.5	Pepper Apples	896	3.4	Chicken Warter	675	2.0	Pepper Eggs	695	2.1
  7	Red Pepper	427	2.4	Milk Warter	856 849	3.2 3.3	melon eggs	651	2.0	Strawberry Chinese	692 676	2.1 2.0
  8	eggs			melon			Tangerin			cabbage
  9	Rice	408	2.3	Chicken	773	2.9	Chinese	634	1.9	Chicken	641	1.9
  10	stra	380	2.1	Tangerin	709	2.6	cabbage	573	1.7	Grape	636	1.9

• The table shows that except rice, livestock and poultry products are continuously on the rise in terms of production amount.
  Ratio of production amount for garlic, apple, sesame, tobacco is decreasing while that of watermelon, grapes, and duck is increasing extensively. Overall, it is found that there뭩 no significant change in the
  ratio of production amount for major items.

• Climate Disaster
• Weather has a great influence on our life. Recently, many cases of abnormal weather such as EI Nino and La Nina take place leading to a hung damage. Each country is trying hard to prevent the damage by abnormal weather conditions and to invest large money in facilities to prepare for them.

• Particularly, abnormal weather causes direct demage on agricultural yield. Being a peninsular surrounded
  by the sea, Korea suffers from huge damage every year caused by typhoon. Typhoon usually hit the country from August to September when most crops including rice, fruit and vegetable fully ripen, bringing
  in a tremendous loss.

• If we look at the demage by abnormal weather conditions on agricultural products for the past 10 years,
  the loss has been bigger and bigger yearly, with some variance depending on the weather conditions of
  the year.

• Typhoon and the localized tropical downpour bring about a dead loss on agricultural products as well as farmland, loss of cultivated land, irrigation facilities and breakwater. Besides, hail, snowstorm, blast,
  drought and tidal wave also cause big damage.

• In order to effectively deal with damage by weather conditions, we have 'Agricultural and Fishery Damage Prevention Act' in place. Under this law, the government or local authorities provide fund or loan to
  promptly restore damage and to effectively run prevention programs on damage as well as to help
  recovery of farm household from damage by granting them with food, relief goods and tax benefits.

• Status of restoration subsidy by damage type

  (Unit: KRW mil.)

• Status of restoration subsidy by damage type

  Year	Damage area (ha)					Support Fund
  	Total	Typhoon / Torrential rain	Snowstorm	Drought	Others	land
  1995	140,154	129,878	-	8,955	1,321	55,649
  2000	168,644	100,252	3,859	58,772	5,761	224,322
  2002	293,057	285,298	-	-	7,759	1,497,734
  2003	192,749	182,746	7,863	-	2,140	960,074