Over the past twenty years, a considerable number of studies have been made on the significances of organic agircuture. What seems to be lacking, however, is experimental analysis to them. There are two purposes in this paper. The one purpose is to explore the developing process of the making co-partnership movement by farmers and consumers in Hyogo Prefecture as the diversifying process of those affiliating types. Another purpose is to find the conditions how to continue this movement, and further to show the developing direction of this movement in the changing environment.
The affiliating types are examined by two view points. One is how farmers and consumers have been affiliated; here we have three distinct types of affiliating. The other is how the consumers' groups have been functioning; they can be divided into three types.
These two aspects have combined to form the three affiliating systems of Organic Agricultural Movement. The first type is affiliated between farmers' group and consumers' one, and is managed by the principle of this movement. The second type shows low-organzed group affiliation, and is managed by market-oriented methods. The last type is formed indivisual farmer and consumers' group, and is managed by mixed methods.
As the movement develops, it has produced these types and shown the diversification of their's, which can be seen as their adaptation to in their environment to advance their movement or co-partnership.
From the analysis of the factors that causes this diversification, we can find the following four points as the conditions to keep their co-partnership: (1) Making an equal relationship between famers and consumers to keep their affiliation, (2) Putting farmers first in their movement, (3) Considering the consumers' convenience enough, (4) Enbodying the necessary functions as the organiztion of the movement.
When Agricultural Co-op or Consumers Co-op participate in this movement, the last point will play an important part.
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