農業分野での労働力不足下における農福連携の取り組みの現状と展望

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Under the current situation with a shortage of agricultural manpower, the number of people farming with disability is increasing. To examine and represent this reality, the current research compares and analyzes typical cases of the movement from social welfare corporations, focusing on staff and disabled people visiting farms together to help with farm work, while adjusting for overall trends in agriculture and welfare cooperations. As a typical case of farming with disabled poople, the research covers matching support between welfare facilities for disabled people and farmers with shortage of manpower who gain disabled labor through the “Kagawa Councial Prefecture Employment Center. ” In the case of the “Hinari” Hamamatsu office, a special subsidiary, its relationship with eight farmers and agricultural corporations is examined. In contrasting cases, the research examines the approaches ot “Kokoron, ” which developed farming contracts from famers and agriculture corporations while engaging in faming business by themselves, as well as “Omori Farm, ” where an agricultural corporation set up welfare facilities for disabled people and started full scale employment of disabled people.