1988 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The Comparative Analysis of Group-farmings on Production

Research Project

Project/Area Number	61410003
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (A)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research Institution	TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	SATO Tsutomu TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, 文学部, 教授 (10004037)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	HASEGAWA Keiji TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, 文学部, 助手 (00198714) NAGAI Akira TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, 文学部, 助手 (90207960) UMINO Michio TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, 文学部, 助教授 (90016676) SAITO Yoshio TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, 文学部, 教授 (10004029) FUNATSU Mamoru TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, 文学部, 助教授 (90047184)
Project Period (FY)	1986 – 1988
Keywords	Group-farmings on production / Land improvement / Increasing number of part-time farmers / Differentiation of peasantrv / リーダー
Research Abstract	Agriculture and the social system of the rural community in modren Japan are undergoing a dratic chang. With the trend of increasing industrialization and urbanization, traditional family farming has been confronted with a great crisis. The number of part-time farmers has increased, and various new forms of group-farmings on production have appeared in response to these situatoins. These groups offer interestig possibilities for future group actois in the field of agrarian productin. Case studies are presented from Yamahunakosi in Miyagi Prefecture, Takatana in Aichi Prefecture, Kurumakado in Iwate Prefecture, Kakurai in Chiba Prefecture and Miyady in Nagano Prefecture. Our comparative studies of these groups have concentratoin on analysis of 1) process of land improvement, 2) increasing in the number of farmers with side job, 3) degree of differentiation of peasantry, 4) leadership to make a new agricultural system. Thus forms of these groups have become clear to be a kind of new system of agriculture, which will be closely linked to leader's idea of group-farmings on productoin of this kind.