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Experimental Research for Elderly Farmers' Decision Making on their Retirement

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K19304
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Agricultural economics and rural sociology, Agricultural Engineering, and related fields
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

MATSUSHITA Shusuke  筑波大学, 生命環境系, 教授 (50355468)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 山本 和博  愛媛大学, 農学研究科, 准教授 (70504124)
Project Period (FY) 2017-06-30 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥6,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Keywords離農促進 / 高齢農業経営者 / 実験的経営研究 / 経営意思決定 / 農地流動化
Outline of Final Research Achievements

It is one of the crucial issues of agrarian policies in Japan to discuss about the reason why the progress in farmland liquidation has not been active focusing on elderly farmers' decision making on their retirement. This study aims to investigate the incentives and outcomes for elderly farmers who had not made decision on their retirement. Two empirical studies were implemented for these three years, including an additional one year approved by JSPS because of West Japan downpours in 2018.
One of these two empirical studies focused on spouses in farm households who had already made decision to introduce commuter farming and were not living in a citrus production island area located in rural area before their engagement in agriculture. The other empirical study focused on to trainees who selected different careers from the fields set up by the agricultural training course they had been joining in. Finally two kinds of decision making model had proposed based on two empirical studies.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

農家の離農に関する意思決定行動は,各人の離農に対する動機の強さと阻害要因の強さとの葛藤であり,多様な阻害要因解消のための経営行動であると捉える視点が重要である.つまり,離農に関する意思決定場面において,農業経営者の経営理念に規定される離農に関する潜在的動機が機能し,その動機が顕在化すれば,離農に関する意思決定が成立すると考えられる.よって,彼らの離農に関する意思決定の実証分析については,離農自体を対象としたアプローチを総合的に行うことは困難であり,様々な離農形態に応じた事例ベースの一般化の蓄積が効果的である.以上の意味で,本研究には,学術的な新規性および営農支援に資する社会的意義が認められる.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] 離農就農時におけて通勤農業が配偶者の意思決定に及ぼす影響2020

    • Author(s)
      山本和博・上田賢悦・角田毅・藤井吉隆・松下秀介
    • Journal Title

      農村経済研究

      Volume: 38-2

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Potential for Commuter Farming to Promote Agricultural Production Infrastructure: A Qualitative Analysis of Farmers’ Attitudes in a Citrus Production Island Area2019

    • Author(s)
      Yamamoto Kazuhiro、Nakamoto Eri、Matsushita Shusuke、Fujii Yoshitaka
    • Journal Title

      Agricultural Information Research

      Volume: 28 Issue: 1 Pages: 46-62

    • DOI

      10.3173/air.28.46

    • NAID

      130007621894

    • ISSN
      0916-9482, 1881-5219
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report 2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] 通勤農業が農家子弟の結婚難解消に及ぼす影響-島しょ部の柑橘産地を事例に-2018

    • Author(s)
      山本和博,中本英里,上田賢悦,藤井吉隆,松下秀介
    • Organizer
      第68回地域農林経済学会大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-07-21   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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