新農民從事新農業的經驗歷程之研究

本研究的目的在於探討臺灣新農民從事新農業的動機、歷程，及新農民從事新農業的困境與因應策略，並分析新農民從事新農業對其個人的影響。研究方法上使用訪談方式進行，訪談臺灣七位新農民，以利達到所欲研究之目的。根據文獻探討、訪談資料所作的分析整理，本研究獲致以下五項結論：一、新農民從事新農業的動機為人的個性、農業工作時間的自由與收入的增加、家鄉父母需要幫忙、對農村鄉土的熱愛與幫助農民的一份心。二、新農民從事新農業的歷程主要經歷實際行動與累積經驗、反省思考且增強自己的能力、整合與計畫未來、創意的實現與成果的產出。三、新農民從事新農業所遇到的困境包含單一農業生產、單純的靠天吃飯、單一農業產業、工業化農業、農業所得不高。四、新農民從事新農業所遇到的困境之解決策略為食品供應鏈型態的提升、詳實記錄的精準生產、多樣性發展與差異化產品的行銷、生態農業的提倡、所得的提升與永續生產。五、從事新農業對新農民個人的影響在於農業經營方式的改變、對農業更深入認識與參與的熱情增加、發現臺灣農業可以改善與提升之處。最後本研究依據研究結果，針對新農民、政府機關，以及後進研究者等提出多項建議。

關鍵字

新農民；新農業；經驗歷程

並列摘要

This paper intends to explore the experiential process of the new farmers with three research goals. First, this paper intends to understand the new farmers’ motivation and process in new agriculture. Next, this study explores the new farmers’ dilemmas, and explores how they deal with a dilemma in new agriculture. Flowing, it analyzes the inspirations after they participate in the new agriculture. Lastly, a concrete suggestion is made for new farmers engaging in new agriculture. The research method of the paper is based on qualitative research of the purposive sampling of semi-structured interviews, and seven respondents were selected and interviewed. Concluding remarks are drawn from the literature review and the analysis of the interviewees’ data as the following: 1. The reason that the new farmers engaging in new agriculture mainly focus on personality characteristics, flexible working hours and a wage increase, assisting their parents, enjoy of the countryside, and kindly feelings to help framers. 2. The process of the new farmers engaging in new agriculture go through concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation. 3. Difficult situation when the new farmers engaging in new agriculture are simple agriculture production, weather has powerful influence on agriculture, industrialized agriculture, simple agriculture business and stable income. 4. The coping strategies of the problem when the new farmers engaging in new agriculture are formation of food supply chain, information intensive precision production, diversity and differentiated products sell, ecological agriculture, getting much money and sustainable agriculture . 5. The new farmers engaging in new agriculture have a great impact on the different way to operate agriculture, knowing more about the agriculture, finding something to change in Taiwan agriculture. This study according to the result of research it concludes some suggestions on the aspect of the new farmers, government authority and following researchers.