Roles of Farmers' Associations on Promoting Non-Farm Income Sources in Taiwan

台灣的農會在促進農場外收入來源的角色

蔡宏進(Hong-Chin Tsai)

《農業推廣學報》 23期 (2007/07) Pp. 55-67

https://doi.org/10.29788/RAES.200707.0004

摘要

本文的主旨在探討台灣的農會在促進農場外收入來源的角色。重要的角色包括四項：（一）、推動農民第二職業專長訓練；（二）、促進與輔導農村青年創業；（三）、推動農村婦女就業技能訓練並介紹其在當地就業；（四）、提供各種直接福利並介紹政府及非政府組織的間接福利給農民。此四種角色分別在本文的第三至第六節分別作了討論與說明。本文在內最後一節則對其他亞太國家要如何應用台灣的相關經驗作了若干建議。本文所論述的事實係來自若干資料，包以往研究的發現、筆者的觀察、及農會與政府的檔案資料。研究的結果可供亞太其他國家的農會或農業合作社等要達成同樣目標的參考。

關鍵字

農場外所得 ； 農會 ； 農業合作社 ； 台灣

並列摘要

This paper attempts to present roles of farmers' associations on promoting non-farm income sources in Taiwan. Important roles include (1) promoting farmers' second job skill training; (2) promoting supervising programs for rural youths' job creation; (3) promoting job skill training program and introducing local jobs for rural women; (4) providing various direct welfares and introducing indirect welfares contributed by governments and NGOs for farmers.
These four major roles are presented respectively in Section Ⅲ through Section Ⅵ of this paper. In the final part, this paper makes suggestions for applying Taiwan related experiences to other Asia and Pacific countries. The evidences are delivered from sources of findings in previous studies, the author's observation, and documents of farmers' associations and government. The study results will be used as references to achieve same objectives of agricultural cooperatives or farmers' associations of other countries in Asia and Pacific region.

並列關鍵字

non-farm income ； farmers' associations ； agricultural cooperatives ； Taiwan