A Study on Farmer's Satisfaction for Certification System of Environment-friendly Agriculture

친환경농산물 인증제도에 대한 농가 만족도 분석

The purposes of this study is to draw up some measures for improving the farmer's satisfaction for certificate system of environment-friendly agricultural products. The data was collected from a survey in 2013. The results of survey for farmers producing environment-friendly agricultural products are as follows. First, almost 60% of the respondents are certified by the private certificate bodies. Second, the main factors affecting farmers' choice of the authority are their trust (49%), geographical adjacency (22.1%), and other farmers' recommendation (7.7%), etc. Third, the index of farmers satisfaction level regarding the certification bodies and the examiner is estimated as 4 out of 5 marks followed by ex post facto management (3.8), application process (3.77), application document (3.66), etc. Lastly, farmers want to make improvement on the complicated application process most (37.9%), followed by expensive application fee (25.2%) and excessive application documents (17.5%). The results can be used to improve the supervision system of certification bodies of farmers, who produce environment-friendly agricultural products.