2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study on Practical Subject for Development of Agricultural Marketing and Distribution in Asian Developing Countries

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19780171
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Agro-economics
Research Institution	Kagoshima University (2008-2009) Kyushu University (2007)
Principal Investigator	YUTAKA Tomoyuki Kagoshima University, 農学部, 准教授 (40335998)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	農産物流通 / 市場間統合分断 / カンボジア / ミャンマー / タイ / 付加価値 / 輸出 / 流通機能
Research Abstract	Some subjects for development of agricultural marketing and distribution have been found such as, 1)In Cambodia, including better financial function, especially for rural middleman's collecting bills steadily and quickly as well as their making fund-raising easily, into the marketing and distribution system, in order to distribute the products from producing area to wide range area of domestic markets, 2)In Thailand, contributing to vegetables farmer's choice of the products buyers, by transmission of more broad area of markets information, solving the problem of beating down the price to the farmers, 3)In Myanmar, removing the uncertainty about allocation of export license and quota which are changing year by year, for export companies.