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Report of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Kansai Agricultural Economic SocietyToshio Kawashima1988 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 163
Published: December 25, 1988
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Shiro Inamoto1988 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 164-176,217
Published: December 25, 1988
Released on J-STAGE: September 05, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSAgriculture and farm management in Japan are facing a new stage as the national and international situations surrounding them change rapidly. The main topic of this papar is to indicate new directions and policies for their further development at the new stage and the major results of its analysis are summerized as follows. First, Japan's agriculture is asked to reform its structure to fulfill its economically and socially appropriate roles in the society. To make the stractural reformation feasible, the development of both extensive and intensive agricultural production methods is essential. Second, farm management in Japan is also required to develop further in the direction which is consistent with an expected agricultural structure. It has to develop well organized strategies and mobilize well trained human resources as well as physical resources to attain the objective. Last, to make the above development of farm management feasible, it needs innovations in production, marketing and managerial systems, and institutional innovations in the legal system. In addition, a promotion of the industry which provides the agricultural services is essential to the development of Japan's agriculture.View full abstractDownload PDF (2493K) -
Masaaki Ishida1988 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 177-185,217
Published: December 25, 1988
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe principles of rice policy in Japan need to change into more liberalization under the changing world economlc situation. Under these circumstances, rice farms also need to challange lowering the cost of production by means of the large-scale farming. The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on how rice farms accumulate the paddy fields collectively and reduce the farm-workers individually, in order to make more efficient use of these production resources.
Approaching this subject, we hypothesize that farmers in Japan behave interdependently, paying attention to the social relations in rural communities. It is desirable for them to act identically the same as the people close to them act. We call this mode of action the contextualism.
With this theoretical framework in mind (methodological contextualism), we clarify the development process for some forms of rice farming. The major conclusions are as follows:
1) The large-scale family farms have to accumulate the paddy fields collectively with the face-to-face contracts.
2) The group farmings stemmed from rural communities have to reduce the members, especially the small-scale family farms, with the legal contracts.View full abstractDownload PDF (1862K) -
Nobuo Kimura1988 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 186-196,218
Published: December 25, 1988
Released on J-STAGE: September 05, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSAs economic situations surrounding agriculture are changing rapidly, farm management is required to develop further toward the new stage. In this paper I analysed the economic situations at present and in the future, then made clear the farming situation. I pointed out the following four subjects, (1) the establishment of the new farming systems. (2) thoroughgoing farm management. (3) systematization of farms with dissimilar type. (4) the advancement of business morals and ability, on vegetable farming for the future. In conclusion, I suggested concretely the direction to which vegetable farming should be developed.View full abstractDownload PDF (1883K) -
Yoko Niiyama1988 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 197-209,218
Published: December 25, 1988
Released on J-STAGE: September 05, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSJapan's beef farming is in a difficult situation since the Japan-U. S. beef trade agreement has been signed. The first object of this study is to make clear the effect of beef import liberalization. The second is to look at the evolution of beef productin, and the third is to investigate ploblems of family farming.
(1) As the percentage of animal protein ingestion tend to be stagnant, a steady increase of beef import will probably lead to a reduction of Japan beef production, due to price competition.
(2) An analysis of relations and trend of wholsale prices of each grade revealed the quality of wagyu beef overtake any other grade. However, the comparable quality of imported beef, and dairy beef lead to price competition.
(3) If improved the fattening cattle farming is able to have a competitive price to a certain extent. To increase farming efficiency, farm expantion, and better production and financial management are suggested.
As the wagyu caw/calf farms are usually small, it is difficult to reduce the cost of calf. As a drop of calf price is expected (due to import), the technology must change, and large scale-diversified farms, for income security, must be developed.
(4) The system of land management and use must be revised. Policies to provide the element of farm business and raise funds should be enforced.View full abstractDownload PDF (2343K) -
Masafumi Hirai1988 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 210-212
Published: December 25, 1988
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Fumio Kuriki1988 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 213-214
Published: December 25, 1988
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Masazumi Kashihara1988 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 215-216
Published: December 25, 1988
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