A Study on the Regionality of Land-Lease Farming : A Comparative Analysis of the Case Study Areas

임차농(賃借農)의 지역성(地域性)에 관한 연구 -사례지역의 비교분석-

This Study puts the purpose to explicate the regionalities of land-lease farming by a comparative analisis of the five case study areas in Kungpook Province as the agricultural space system of Teagu metropolitan city. For the regional comparative analysis the province was divided into the three zones with the distance from the central city(Teagu): urban fringes, intermediate and remote zone, and then subdivided into the five regions by farming systems : horticulture, rice-farming, and dry-field farming. The data were collected from 77 land-leasing farmers by questionnaire and interview with farm managers in 5 sample villages representing the regionalities of the above five regions respectively. In spite of relatively restricted scope of the research areas, the analytical results appear remarkable regional differences in the characteristics of land-lease farming within a single agricultural space system. In the final analysis the regionalities of the five land-lease farming regions could be described respectively as follows. (1) Koryong-Gun in the inner urban fringe zone : The developing land-lease farming region of commercialized suburban horticulture with medium scale. (2) Songju-Gun in the outer urban fringe zone : The developing land-lease farming region of highly commercialized horticulture with large scale. (3) Uisong-Gun in the intermediate zone : The stagnated land-lease farming region of commercialized rice-farming with large scale. (4) Yongil-Gun in the intermediate zone : The stagnated land-lease farming region of commercializing dry-field farming with medium scale. (5) Ponghwa-Gun in the remote zone : The stagnated and delayed region in commercializing of intermountain dry-field land-lease farming with small scale. These varied regionalities resulted from the diverse spatiality as a complex of spatial orders and localities. The spatial orders in this study are frequently recognizable as a form of distance-decay, and the locality of a region is determined mostly by the its peculiarity of physical and population conditions. In the comparative analysis of the regionalities the degree of commercialization of a region is a most comprehensive and useful frame of reference because it reflects the degree of development of capitalist land-lease farming. Finally these apparent regional differentiations of land-lease farming within a agricultural space system raise the problem of impracticality of the existing uniform logic on the land-lease farming such as "large scale farms share larger part of leased farmland." This problem suggests the urgent need of reappraisal of many aspatial logics and theories on the land-lease farming.

본 연구는 경북의 사례지역 비교분석을 통하여 임차농의 지역성을 밝히는 것이 목적이다. 이를 위하여 대구시의 농업 공간체계(대략 경상북도와 일치)를 대상으로 중심도시에서의 거리와 영농형태에 따라 5개 군(郡)을 연구대상지역으로 선정한 후 각 군을 대표하는 마을(이동(里洞))을 택하여 총 77개 임차농가에 대한 설문조사를 무작위로 행하였다. 연구지역의 범위가 제한적이면서도 분석의 결과는 임차농의 지역성을 잘 드러내고 있다. 이러한 지역성은 특정 공간체계가 형성하는 공간질서와 이 공간질서내에서 특정 장소가 발현하는 국지성이 결합하여 형성된 것이다. 이 경우의 공간질서는 주로 거리조락으로 나타나고 국지성은 지역의 고유한 자연환경과 인구요인의 차이에서 발현된다. 한편 본 연구지역의 지역성을 포괄적으로 파악할 수 있는 기본 기준은 지역농업의 상업화 정도인데 그것은 한국의 임차농이 봉건적 소작농에서 자본주의적 차지농(借地農)으로 이행하는 과도기에 있기 때문이다. 이상과 같은 임차농의 현저한 지역성은 기존의 획일적인 임차농 설명논리의 현실 괴리문제를 제기하였다.