An Economic Study on Technologies of Producing Agricultural Services

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K14809
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Agricultural science in management and economy
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Nakashima Yasuhiro 東京大学, 大学院農学生命科学研究科(農学部), 教授 (50202213)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 村上 智明 東京大学, 大学院農学生命科学研究科(農学部), 助教 (60748523)
• Research Collaborator: TAKEDA Mari ; NISHIHARA Yukinaga ; IMAI Asako ; TAKANO Masahiro
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: コントラクター / サービス科学 / モジュール化 / 土地改良区 / 酪農 / サトウキビ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Japan’s agriculture now confronts a big turning point. The attention should be paid to the development of the agriculture service entities and the generation of new business models whose part could be separated from their management bodies. This study conducted qualitative and quantitative analyses on new supply system of agriculture water service, contractor activity of the dairy farming, and corporate work of harvesting sugar cane while using an academic framework of service science. We partly examined economic issues to be addressed so that these actions could be tied to true structural reforms.

Free Research Field

農業経済学