Abstract
The New Policy Direction for Food, Agriculture and Rural Development in 1992 assigns a leading role to independent commercial farms and joint commercial farms in reorientating productive Japanese agriculture. But there are many rooms for group farming to be developed in the process of the reorganizing Japanese agriculture. Two types of group farming, one in contractual arrangement, another in communal arrangement, are recommended in this paper. They are described as contributing to retaining productive farm land in use and to providing independent commercial farms with prospective for farm consolidation of retained farm land in the future.
