Formation of the Sustainable Locall Agriculture by Organization and Business Innovation of the Farmers' Cooperatives in the East Asian Tea Industry

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25450328
• 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: University of Nagasaki
• Principal Investigator: KIMURA TSUTOMU 長崎県立大学, 経済学部, 客員研究員 (20140931)
• Research Collaborator: ZHUANG Peizhang ; ZHENG Huirong ; HUANG Shunshen ; CHENG Ming ; LIU Lizhi ; XU Guodong ; LEE Byung-Oh ; KIM Jakyung ; TAMURA Yoshihiro
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 農業産業化 / 茶産業 / 協同組合組織 / 企業組織 / 資本形成 / 技術高度化 / 高付加価値形成 / 垂直統合

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to examine the way of sustainability of local agriculture in the East Asian tea farming where the agricultural industrialization is remarkable, and in which the organizational and business innovation of the small farmers's cooperatives are formed.
The vertical integration, which coordinates the capital formation, the material procurement, the equalization of the cultivation technology, the advanced processing technology, and the marketing system etc., is formed. As a result, a management effect of the farmers’ income increase confirmed.
In the global age, the large-scale capital formation and marketing system formation are indispensable for agricultural industrialization, therefor these are the basic conditions of the sustainable local agriculture formation. These conditions are by the multipurpose farmers'cooperatives in Japan and Korea, on the other hand, by local government and company in China.

Free Research Field

農業経済学