Structural change of paddy farming viewd from the cultivator and land owner connections in rural society; Social system theory approach

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24658195
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Agro-economics
• Research Institution: Mie University
• Principal Investigator: ISHIDA MASAAKI 三重大学, 生物資源学研究科, 招へい教授 (80144228)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 耕脈 / 水田農業 / 農地基本台帳 / 農業センサス / 農業構造動態 / 集落個性 / ソーシャルキャピタル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is clarifying the structural change of paddy farming viewed from the cultivator and land owner connections in rural society, one of the social system theory approach. This method is called “Koumyaku” by the innovator, Mr. Toshio Nishio. Our main surveyed area is Ishinari in Higashi-sefuri village in Saga prefecture and Ohshimada in Yawata town in Yamagata prefecture. The result of comparison analysis between “Koumyaku” of 1980’s and 2010’s using the personal interview shows a moderate change from the social relationship to the economic relationship. This evidence encourages our hypothesis that paddy farming is strongly related with human factors as well as economic factors.

Free Research Field

農業経済学・農業経済学