2017 Volume 35 Issue 1 Pages 110-117
Agriculture committees are the administrative committees which coordinate of the farmland. And the most of members of agricultural committees are farmers Japanese government had discussed the Agricultural committee Reform since 2014. So in April, 2016, agriculture committee law was revised. The aim of this paper is to research the activities of agricultural committees in Niigata prefecture surveyed by the Record Book of agricultural committee's activities. And by that, we indicated the problems of agricultural committee reform. The organization of all agricultural committees has carried out "visualization" of agricultural committee's activity results. Those are the Record Book of agricultural committee's activities and the Cards of activity results of agricultural committees. We analyzed those data of Niigata from 2010 to 2014. According to this analysis, firstly, the members of agricultural committees are more busy than before, because they did more activity example of to support prospective farmers, to reduce non-cultivated farmland, food and nutrition education and so on. Secondly, the everyday activities of the members of agricultural committees eliminated the non-cultivated lands in most of places. Finally, we state agricultural committees should have many members in agricultural committee reform, in order to achieve more results.
