An Analysis on the Factors Affecting the Improvement of Competence of the Strong Small Farm

The Strong Small Farm (SSF) is small farm, but strong farm so that the SSF competes with farm of the world. Also, SSF means that farmer brings about management innovation through improvements of continuous competence and individual efforts. Ultimate goals of SSF are to improve competence of farm household by 20 percent and to increase farm household income by 10 percent. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting the improvement of competence of the Strong Small Farm. The major findings of this study are summarized as follows. First, the results indicated that competence of farm household was improved by 8.5 percent. Second, the findings showed that management plan report, implement report, precision management consulting and whether or not he or she was urban to rural returner had a significant impact on improvement of competence.