Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Contractors with GIS and GPS

2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21780217
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Agro-economics
• Research Institution: National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
• Principal Investigator: NISHIMURA Kazushi 独立行政法人農業・食品産業技術総合研究機構, 九州沖縄農業研究センター作物開発・利用研究領域, 主任研究員 (60373247)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2011
• Keywords: 農業経済学

Research Abstract

Contractors(corn-used-for-animal-feed harvest trust organization) which the cultivated land for work distributes in a wide area, are in the tendency for a cultivated land move loss to become large as the degree of dispersion of an object cultivated land becomes large, but Harvesting operation efficiency(cultivated land move efficiency) being improved at unified management of an object cultivated land was shown. Furthermore, it became clear by TSP simulation that the farmland use adjustment between users also contributes to improvement in efficiency.