The Agreement on the Replotting Disposition Accompanied with the Land Consolidation Project for Making Large Land Parcels and the Factors that Affect It
1995 Volume 14 Issue 1 Pages 20-30
Details
1995 Volume 14 Issue 1 Pages 20-30
At present, one of the main subjects of land consolidation project is to widen the area of a paddy-field parcel and improve labor productivity. Typically, a project for performing such an objective is the “Land consolidation project for cost reduction in rice paddy fields”. One of the conditions of this project is to divide parcels of paddy fields whose area is 1ha or more, by four or more. But in order to accomplish such a condition, reaching an agreement on the re-plotting disposition becomes more difficult. So in this paper, the author has considered the factors which have made it easy for farmers to reach an agreement on the replotting disposition based on the project in the Sesenagi distriot in Taiyu-village, located on Akita prefecture as a case study. As a result, the following points have become clear:
(1) First, the farmers in the district have recognized that the necessity of the project is high.
(2) In the district, there are not significant differences in the field conditions, so there have been few factors prevent-ing the farmers from reaching an agreement.
(3) In this case, the replotting disposition has resulted in one or two adjoining plots for most of the farmers, if the place in the district does not matter.
(4) In the district, another grant-in-aid project has been introduced whereby the charge for the land consolidation be-came very cheap for each farmer.
(5) There is a tendency that the level of appreciation for the project of the farmers, who are permitted to enlarge the scale of their farm in the district, is relatively high. However, on the other hand, equalization of the additional be-nefit per 10a received by each farmer may have also contributed partly to this.
(6) In considering the whole project, it can be said that it has not resulted in differences of the additional benefit per 10a received by each farmer as much as they have not been able to reach an agreement, as the expected effects of the projects is large and the charge they have to bear is very cheap. Consequently, it can be said that the farmers have been able to reach an agreement.
