台灣農地功能之研究：一般民眾與農民態度及空間差異的比較

Abstract

3. 不同農村型的農民具有不同的農地功能傾向，調適型農村的農民有比較高的比例同意，農地除了糧食生產的功能之外，還有其他的功能，例如環境保護、休閒等。

The traditional function of agriculture is for food production. Two new agricultural regimes – post-productivism and multifunctional agriculture (or multifuctionality) – are initiated in western advanced countries in the mid 1980s. The new agricultural regime state that “beyond its primary function of producing food and fibre, agricultural activity can also shape the landscape, provide environmental benefits such as land conservation, the sustainable management of renewable resources and preservation of biodiversity and contribute to the socio-economic viability of rural areas.” The land is the main factor for agricultural management, so that what function should agricultural land have is a critical issue for implementation of new agricultural regime. This paper conducts Likert’s scale questionnaires of general public and farmers in order to understand there attitude toward agricultural land functions Taiwan’s. The questionnaires of farmers are conducted in two ideal types of rural. One of them is Dachou village in I-Lan county which represents an adjusting rural space type toward new agricultural regime and other is Ginliou community in Tainan county which presents a traditional rural space type remain producing food and fibre as primary function of agricultural land use. The different questionnaire enables us to compare the attitude between general public and farmers, and also between farmers in different rural types. The findings show that: 1. Both of the general public and farmers have an attitude toward the new agricultural regime. This means that they agree that agricultural land has multiple functions—producing, ecological and living functions. 2. The general public is more romantic to rural idyll than farmers, and in agricultural land use farmers are more practical and conservative than the general public. 3. The farmers in different rural space have different attitudes toward agricultural land functions. The farmers in adjusted rural have a higher percentage of agree that beyond its primary function of producing food and fibre, agricultural land can also shape alternative functions—for environment protection, leisure and so on.