A Study of Managerial Functions of Group Farming
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02451090
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Agro-economics
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| Research Institution | kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
CHO Kenji Kyushu Univ., Faculty of Agriculture, Professor, 農学部, 教授 (90038175)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MORIYAMA Hideo Kyushu, Univ., Faculty of Agriculture, Assistant Professor, 農学部, 講師 (40038287)
IWAMOTO Izumi Kyushu, Univ., Faculty of Agriculture, Associate Professor, 農学部, 助教授 (10193773)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1990 – 1991
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1991)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1991: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1990: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
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| Keywords | Group farming / Differentiation of farm classes / Rural hamlet / Managerial function |
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| Research Abstract |
Actual investigations had been done continuously during the 2nd year (1991) of the following four cases of group farming ; (1) Ito Joint-use Group of Farm Machinery, Maebaru Town, Fukuoka Prefecture, (2) Hamakubo Co-operative Farm, Nijyo Town, Fukuoka Prefecture, (3) Mitsuhashi Joint-use Group of Farm machinery, Isezaki City, Gunma Prefecture, and (4) Hada Co-operative Farm, Karatu City, Saga Prefecture. Of which, (1) and (4) were the cases which were found in the area where intensive types of farming had been practiced and were the cases which covered a wider area than a hamlet ; (2) was the case which was organized in the extent of a hamlet in an intensive farming area ; and (3) was the case which covered several rural hamlets in an extensive farming area where the most farms were in the category of part-time ones.
The followings were the main results obtained from actual investigations of the different types of group farming in different types of farming areas.
(1) A clear difference
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was found by two regions, Eastern Japan and Western Japan, in the types of and in the ways of shifting managerial functions of group farming. It seemed to due to the difference in types of farming in both regions.
(2) Both joint-use of machinery and group adjustment of land use were necessary to improve the effectiveness of group farming.
(3) The types of group farming which covered a wider area than a rural hamlet were desirable to employ machinery more efficiently. However, in such a widely organized group of farming, relations between group farming and rural hamlet become the problem to be adjusted.
(4) Group farming had a tendency, in one respect, to change from one tupe which was organized on a territorial basis containing numerous farms of heterogeneous to another type which was organized on a voluntary basis consisted of less farms in number of homogeneous character in size of farm or in type of farms. The latter type of group farming seemed to have advantages in expanding the size of farm businesses and in strengthening the managerial functions of groups farming. However, the prevailing system of small-sized scattered fields placed a strong restrictions on improvement of efficiency in the use of farm resources in such a thpe of group farming as organized on a voluntary basis in a wider area. Both types of groups farming above mentioned seemed to b e necessary to work together to solve the problems relating to the prevailing scattered-field system. Less
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