農業集落間格差の収束仮説に関する統計的検証

消滅臨界点の探索を通じて

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This paper sheds light on spatial disparity across agricultural communities in Japan. In the remote and marginal areas, maintaining agricultural activities is increasingly difficult, thereby casting doubt on the sustainability of agricultural communities. Beta convergence tests are employed to determine whether the disparities of (1) the number of farmers, (2) land use, (3) the revenue per farmer, and (4) the number of community activities tend to decline or not. Our regression analysis supports the presence of Beta convergence for most variables, implying that there is no threshold below which agricultural communities inevitably disappear.