The Effect of Farm Contract Business on Vegetable Farming

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25450320
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Agricultural science in management and economy
• Research Institution: Mie University
• Principal Investigator: TOKUDA HIROMI 三重大学, 生物資源学研究科, 教授 (20346000)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TANEICHI Yutaka 山口大学, 農学部, 准教授 (40640826) ; MORIE Masashi 国立研究開発法人農業・食品産業技術総合研究機構, 九州沖縄農業研究センター, 主任研究員 (30355474) ; KANAOKA Masaki 国立研究開発法人農業・食品産業技術総合研究機構, 機構本部, 研究戦略チーム長 (50355260)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 野菜産地 / 農作業受委託 / 機械化 / 農企業経営 / 産地マーケティング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The farm contract business on vegetable farming have increasing recently.The main effect of the business on vegetable farmers are reduction of labor burden and fixed capital investment. Also it is expected to effect on marketing such as scheduled sales and flexible packaging corresponding to buyers' request. The business promotes joint business by prudusers' organization and agricultural cooperative initiative producing system. For realizing stable management of the business, it is important to ensure dealing quantity corresponding to facility's capacityby practical planning because of large amount of fixed capital investment.

Free Research Field

農業経済学