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This paper gives consideration to the meaning of environment-friendly agricultural policy in the Republic of Korea. The overall picture of agricultural policy is clarified by studying annual development of the policy. Environment-friendly agricultural policy has been carried out, for the purpose of fostering largescale rice farmers, through promoting projects to group small-and-medium sized farmers. At first the direct payment system required groupings of farmers, but later the certification of environmentfriendly agricultural products was required for groupings. As a result, the number of farming households to join a group has increased steadily. The problem is that there is a difference between the amount that has been certified and the shipped amount. Therefore, groupings of farmers should again be the requirement of direct payment.