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Korean government has increased investment on farm education to strengthen competitiveness of agricultural sector in response to trade liberalization. Without any scientific evidence, however, there has been a criticism that the investmentseems not to efficiently increase farm income. Therefore, the relation between farm education and farm income has been an urgent and important question to policy makers. This article examines the issue using 856 usrvey data to find a strong empirical evidence that farm education has acted an important role in increasing farm income. Moreover, the study finds that the effect of farm education is multifarious by income levels and education programs, which implies that well-designed education programs may increase farm income substantially.
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