농촌진흥청이 세계농업발전을 위해서 공헌한 연구 업적 가운데 가장 뛰어난 3가지 업적은 온대지방에서 열대 지역에서 육종한 단간종 IR8을 이용해서 통일벼를 육성 주식인 쌀 자급을 이룩한 것이고, 둘째가 미국의 선진 옥수수 육종기술인 단교잡종 하이브리드를 세계 최초로 자체 힘으로 개발 강원, 충북, 경북산간지 농가 의 옥수수 생산량을 5년내에 3배 높이고, 이 기술을 인도, 태국, 필리핀, 인도네시아, 중국, 북한 등에 기술 이전을 한 것이고 세 번째 업적은 아마도 비닐온실 혁명일 것이다. 위의 1, 2 농업혁명을 위해서 연구직과 지도직공무원들은 나라의 식량증산과 농업발전을 위해서 죽으면 죽으리라는 각오로 밤낮을 가리지 않고 일 했다. 새마을 운동이 성공하고 오늘의 한국이 있기 까지 외화를 벌기 위해서 피땀 흘려 일한 우리의 애국 노무자들, 기업인들, 적은 박봉이지만 국민의 종이라는 자부심을 가졌던 공무원들의 노력이 있었다. 국제경쟁 력이 있는 친환경 정직 농업을 연구하고, 지도하고, 친환경 농산물을 생산 할 때 농업이 선진국 한국 발전의 버팀목이 될 수 있다.

As people get aged, we need to pay more attention to the elderly living condition with respect to welfare policy. The present study focuses on housing condition of elderly people living in rural area, and analyzes its determinants, periodical difference, and regional disparities, incorporating an index of minimum housing standard. This study applies multi-level logit model that has a strong statistical advantage that can take random aspects of household and regional context into account. We found that married couple household, presence of economically-active family members, higher education, specialized profession, migration and higher level of land price tend to lower the probability of residing in substandard housings. We also found that housing conditions for elderly people prove to be different by regions and it is particularly noticeable in mountainous rural areas in Gyeongsangnam-do and Gyeongsangbuk-do with the poorest elderly housing conditions. Results also implies that housing welfare policies should be implemented differently considering the target groups based on regional differences. We conclude with some additional policy implications for the elderly living in rural areas.

With the cognition of the problems on propulsion system of rural development program, the requirement for accurate diagnosis of the problems and for reform scheme is increasing. This study was performed to solve the above requirement especially on the level of a local government, Chungnam province as an instance. For accurate diagnosis of the problems, the present situation of propulsion system, i.e. organization and governance, planning and policy making, implementation and supervision of rural development program was investigated, and the cognition of public officials and specialists was surveyed. From the study, it showed that the problems of propulsion system for rural development program in Chungnam province are duplication of work sphere among departments, formal administration of governance, an absence of long-term plan with vision and strategy, and absence of department in charge of comprehensive supervision and so on. As a result of the study 9 reform schemes to solve the problems were suggested.