Abstract
There could be three major factors for farm organization; marketing, productivity, community factor. Focusing on the community factor, this paper analyzes the relationship between the large-scale corporate farming, formed by increasing land leasing in Hokuriku lowland region, and its rural society. In this region, however, as the numbers of farm household tends to decline, the retirement from managing regional resources or at least the reduction of their consciousness to the regional agriculture also become wide-spread. The management of large-scale farming faces a sense of crisis to this trend of fading regional corporation, thereafter, farming is urged to take an active role in reconstruction of regional agriculture. As a solution, for example, Sakatani Farm in Toyama tries to establish a close connection with another type farm entities, such as hamlet based group-farming, in the same rural area. From the view of the regional policy, value sharing, economic or non-economic, with each other is a critical element for such attempts to be successful. Further, for the value sharing to be possible, the regional farming needs to be mixed, diversified, and networked with other industries. These new movements viewed as a structural change within the region suggested that structural policy must be enfold regional policy, particularly in the new “Agricultural Basic Low”.
