抄録
Governments try to implement sixth sector industrialization (e.g., processing, sales, and other business undertaken integrally by agricultural, forestry, and fishery businesses to increase the added value of products) to promote sustained development of agriculture through increasing agricultural income. In this study, we examine the efforts toward sixth sector industrialization as conducted by agricultural management entities in Ehime Prefecture that have received prefectural government approval for project proposal. The results show that even though there were positive results evident through increased sales, in looking at profitability, there is room for improved management. In the years to come, financing and the associated increased costs such as for labor, capital expenditure, and depreciation as well as a review of the cost structure, will present significant management challenges in continuing to build businesses in a sustainable and stable manner. In this study, after first clarifying those management challenges available to quickly and efficiently push forward the financing that the management entities worked on to expand market size in implementing sixth sector industrialization, we also considered policies for environmental maintenance directed towards the necessary business solutions.
