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A Case Study of the Matsumoto Highland Agricultural Cooperative, Nagano PrefectureTae-Seok Wi2002 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 101-113
Published: December 25, 2002
Released on J-STAGE: September 05, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe first objective of this paper is to determine the conditions for the Agricultural Cooperatives' organizational capacity. The second is to interpret the conditions responsible for organizational capacity effect and scale effect. The third is to determine the ideal way to coordinate the functions between the regionally merged Agricultural Cooperatives and the Prefectural Economic Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives (Zen-noh prefectural headquarters).
Analyses revealed that the conditions satisfying organizational capacity depend on the self management of members' activities, fairness of work allocation among the members, and the enhancement of members' knowledge by experience training. Furthermore, in order to obtain the optimum conditions, the organizational capacity effect and scale effect must be mutually harmonious. The Prefectural Economic Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives has three broad functions regulation, substitution and supplementation. The study shows that these functions on behalf of the agricultural cooperatives help to bring about the sought-after economies of scale and regulation through their interaction.View full abstractDownload PDF (3800K) -
Haruyo Kudo2002 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 114-123
Published: December 25, 2002
Released on J-STAGE: September 05, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn the European Union (EU), the reorganization of the policy and the system which deals with food is now proceeding under new unified principles.
In this article, in view of the fact that a new food policy is now being developed in the EU, we examine the context and history of the development of EU food policy and the system of that policy.
As sources, the laws and official governmental documents concerning the production, distribution and consumption of foods are used.
In regard to the context, it is important that some defects have become apparent from emergent events (such as BSE, dioxin-crisis, etc.), the completion of the internal market, the importance of consumer policy, and so on.
We then considered food policy to be made up of five sectors —food safety, internal market, quality, industry, information—, and examined the system of food policy from the points of principles, objectives and responsibilities of each of the sectors.
In the future, it would seem that the position of the consumer (citizen) will be improved. But it is characteristic of the EU that there is little distinction between the policy for the producer and that for the consumer.View full abstractDownload PDF (2850K) -
With a Stock Adjustment for Aggregated Wagyu Farm in JapanHwi-Young Song2002 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 124-138
Published: December 25, 2002
Released on J-STAGE: September 05, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn analyzing the dynamic supply response of farmers, the Cobweb Theorem and the Nerlovian Model have been applied as popular theoretical frameworks. In the present paper, in order to analyze strictly the dynamic characteristics of the supply response of the Wagyu farmer, three theoretical hypotheses, namely, the Kinked and Irreversible Supply Response by C. Edwards and T. Yori, the Cobweb Theorem, and the asymmetric response of stock adjustment behavior that is originally suggested in this paper, were combined and analyzed. I proposed the asymmetric modeling of supply response to verify the theoretical hypothesis by using cointegration analysis that has been applied in positive econometrics. Asymmetrical models for verifying the hypothesis were estimated and tested using statistical data for Wagyu farmers.
Although the empirical results obtained indicated that kinked response hypothesis was partially supported, irreversible response hypothesis was rejected in the cases of cow-calf farmers and beef feedlot farmer of Wagyu cattle. On the other hand, asymmetric response hypothesis of stock adjustment behavior was supported in both cases. In conclusion, we could not support the downward rigidity of supply response in agricultural products that has been generally argued in Japan. The reason for the inconsistency between the Edwards-Yori theory and the actual behavior of Wagyu farmers could be explained as follows: the Edwards-Yori theory is based on the assumption that farmer behavior depends on complete information, but actual farmers decide whether to supply farm products or not based on risk aversion and reasonable liquidity preference under incomplete information.View full abstractDownload PDF (4119K) -
Mitoshi Yamaguchi2002 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 139-140
Published: December 25, 2002
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Masahiro Okamoto2002 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 141-142
Published: December 25, 2002
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Yoshikazu Yamamoto2002 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 143-145
Published: December 25, 2002
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Miwa Ohkura2002 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 146-147
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Taichi Kitagawa2002 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 148-149
Published: December 25, 2002
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