Analysis on the possibility of farm management growth based trust and cooperation in rural societies

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26450314
• 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: Kagawa University
• Principal Investigator: Muto Yukio 香川大学, 農学部, 准教授 (90596123)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 農業経営の成長 / 雇用管理 / 人材育成 / 集落営農の利益 / 人的投資 / 農業の担い手

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study assumes two types of farm management organizations which Japanese farmers can build to achieve farm management growth based on trust and cooperation in rural societies. The one is community farming organized by farmers in a relatively small region, and the other is entrepreneurial farm managements that individually accumulate lands to realize management growth. With regards to the former, this study illustrates how farmers can recognize the merit of cooperation in community farming, and how community farming organizations can efficiently conduct human investments on the participants. With regards to the latter, on the other hand, this study investigates how farm managers in Kagawa Prefecture tend to design the managements of production and workers, and to plan human resource developments. Besides, the study explains how the managerial efforts of entrepreneurial farm managers can accompany the cooperation of neighbor farmers who anticipate the conservation of their lands.

Free Research Field

Agricultural Economics