Abstract
For this study, questionnaires were administered to authorized farmers and to agricultural managers at agricultural corporations. Positive inclination to find successors and present agricultural management conditions were clarified. Recently, people working in agriculture enterprises have become increasingly fewer year by year. Consequently, the upbringing of agricultural successors is important for agricultural management. However, because profits are well known to be low for agricultural management of many kinds, successor upbringing and development are not regarded as important matters by these agricultural managers. Results of this study show a trend by which agricultural managers gradually regard enforcement of management competence, increased agricultural workers, and revenues as important performance criteria. Furthermore, the enforcement of management competence, the increase of agricultural workers, and revenues were shown by multiple regression analysis to be primary goals of agricultural management. Moreover, the competence of agricultural managers is important in the upbringing of successors. The items, methods, and subjects of successor upbringing would become complex if managers regarded successor upbringing as important.
