A Study of the Respective Support in the Developmental Stage of Farm Management in Agricultural Extension Services by the Hiroshima Prefectural Government

Abstract

This study aims to clarify the ideal approach for governmental support in farm management development through a case study of the respective support in the developmental stage of farm management in agricultural extension services by the Hiroshima Prefectural Government. The study observes an actual farm management development which the Hiroshima Prefectural Government set as a benchmark of the agropolicy and focuses on the problems faced by farm managers and how they solved them; what organizations, such as local governments, provided support; and how farm managers increased their management abilities. According to this study, the Hiroshima Prefectural Government changed the method of establishing the policy goal of agriculture from promoting agricultural items to purposing an ideal image of farm management development. In addition, it set the index of farm management development according to the organizational system and human resource.