2002 Volume 23 Pages 101-111
This research grasps the characteristic and the change of the agricultural management structure of our country first. Next, this research clarifies the managerial economic meaning of the joint work regarding roughage production by three cow breeding farms in the mountainous area in Okayama Pref. And, it is evaluated that this production union effectively uses regional resources and is developing sustainable agriculture. It is important for this production union to accumulate the unplanted area very efficiently and to product feed and forage crops. This production union will be more requested to harmonize with the natural environment and the peasant people in this region. The promotion of such a production union is indispensable for the activation of the mountainous area.
