Developing the educational programs for fostering strategic industrial human resources to accelerate farming business diversification

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24580313
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Agro-economics
• Research Institution: Utsunomiya University
• Principal Investigator: SAITO Kioshi 宇都宮大学, 農学部, 教授 (80202076)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 6次産業 / 農業教育 / 人材育成 / アクション・ラーニング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to develop the educational programs for fostering strategic industrial human resources to accelerate farming business diversification. From the viewpoint of international research, this study built the joint research team with the American researchers to do field survey together in Spain and German and exchanged the academic opinions. In Japan, this study took up Akita to survey the extensional education effects in the 1960s. Through these research activities, this study discovers the critical point. That is the buying power in the business process which acts the spin-off factor in the business expansion of farming business. This study developed more than 15 educational materials and had the seminar for young farmers for three years. The usefulness of the educational programs this study developed is verified.

Free Research Field

農業経営学