2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study for the Analysis Service by the Agricultural Experimental Station in the Early 20^<th> Century

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20539003
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Economic history
Research Institution	Bunkyo Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	TAKAHASHI Chikashi Bunkyo Gakuin University, 経営学部, 助教 (10339731)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	肥料 / 依頼分析 / 農商務省 / 農事試験場 / 沢野淳
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study is to clarify how the request analysis service of the fertilizer by the agricultural experiment stations of the Ministry of Agricultural and Commercial Affairs contributed to the fertilizer market of the latter half of the Meiji era. A lot of new entries were in the fertilizer market in Japan in around 1900. They were manufacturers and dealers of the new kind of fertilizers such as the chemical fertilizers and the animal bone meal. These new entries used the request analysis service, and they succeeded in the market.