The objective of this study is to clarify the farming and non-farming job structure among farmers in a “zone in preparation for the lifting of the evacuation order” in Fukushima Prefecture as a part of part-time farming and job structure studies in the Tohoku region. We conducted interviews of evacuated farmers and the result indicated the unknown facts enumerated below. To be employees as full-time workers in factories is a standard for wives and husbands at the age of breadwinners. They have no engagement in their family farming besides their factory jobs ; so that farming in the area is carried out by a few young full-time farmers and most wives and husbands at the age of retirement. The generational difference in job structure causes a sharp tendency of farm retirement at the restoring farming site. The wages of non-farming jobs in the area labor market started with a factory that moved from Yokohama in 1970, when area had abundant surplus labor ; low wages appeared as the surplus labor dwindled. The process to build the hierarchy of non-farming wages from high to low was not considered in earlier studies about the rural labor market structure.

This study examines the medical and welfare effects of agricultural activities in helping NEET return to normal social life. We paid special attention to the psychological effects by applying POMS (Profile of Mood States) to our evaluation. The main results are as follows : First, the negative feelings of POMS were relieved after the agricultural activities. Second, no improvement was found in sleeping or eating habits during most of the experimental period. Third, as an important result of this study, based on the agricultural practice, the experimental subject has regained his confidence for returning to social life and gotten a new job.

The objective of this study is to make clear how farmers are impacted by the formation of units in a subcommittee. The target of our survey is the JA (Japan Agriculture Cooperatives) Aichi Minami (at Tahara City Aichi Prefecture) chrysanthemum (called "ringiku") subcommittee. This subcommittee has three teams which have a different policy for selling. As a result of interviews to farmers and JA staff members, two conclusions became clear. First, selling capabilitiy by subcommittees depends on the difference of members' production scale. Second, the structure of chrysanthemum farming at Tahara City is going to be scaled down.

The purpose of this research is to analyze characteristics of scale expansion of large-scale paddy agriculture in recent years by households. The conclusion is as follows. First, in order for the farmers to exceed the cultivation area of 15 ha, the successor also needs to engage in agriculture. Second, farm households with successors as full-time workers engaged in their own farming expand the cultivation area of 30ha or more. However, some successors of farm households become full-time workers of farming in the expansion process of the cultivation area of 30ha or more.

The objective of this study is to clarify the advantages of agricultural production corporation for establishing a new agricultural corporation by joint venture with a big non-agricultural company. The implications were derived from an interview survey of 3 agricultural production corporations established by joint venture. The main outcome is as follows : There are three advantages for the growth of an agricultural production corporation on its corporate entry into agriculture by joint venture, namely, the ability to (1) acquire capital and market at the same time, (2) acquire human resources from the company, and (3) avoid the risk of declining freedom of management action.

This study assesses socialization to an organization by newly employed farmers in village farming-type farm corporations from the perspective of transformation of their actions and state of mind in the social context of farming and farm villages. Means of promoting socialization of newly employed farmers to an organization are considered. Newly employed farmers felt a shock from adjustrnent when joining the organization because of ambiguity and insecurity concerning farm management. However, organizational socialization has occurred through village and community experiences, which has engendered a sense of responsibility for duties and an eagerness for career development.

This paper examined how an agricultural corporation changed human resource management as the scale expanded, and how they affected the satisfaction of employees and corporate management. Our research found the following two things : First, the corporation maintained productivity since its establishment through technology transfer and transition of power to employees. Second, as a result of improving the work environment and supporting employees' capacity building, the employees' satisfaction level was significantly high. However, time elapsed from taking measures to achieving results, so it is clear that a long-term perspective is important to implement measures.

The purpose of this study is reviewing effective support methods of cooperation between agriculture and welfare at the regional level. This study found that two kinds of support are effective, corresponding to the actual situations in different areas. In the field farming zone, matching farmers and welfare facilities for persons with disabilities is an effective support method. In the paddy field, we can improve the working conditions of the disabled people employed by farmers and disabled welfare facilities. If we conduct them, we can promote the efforts of cooperation between agriculture and welfare in these areas.

The purposes of this study are to investigate the damage from the nuclear power plant accident to farm management of shiitake mushroom cultivation on hardwood logs in hilly areas of Abukuma Range and to address factors underlying shiitake producers' perceptions about compensation from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPC). The data collected from 13 damaged farms reveal that the scope and size of management differed markedly across the producers, with the annual net revenue ranging from 0.18 to 6.6 million yen. In addition, it is found that most producers were dissatisfied with the compensation by TEPC. They felt that the compensation did not cover all their managerial resource loss due to the accident, because some of the key assessment indexes are not in accord with their actual management conditions.

The purpose of this study is to examine how natural disasters affected the economies of the stricken area and other areas of Japan. Using the interregional input-output table, we analyzed the forward linkage in order to measure the impacts through the fluctuation in farm, forestry and marine products : the difference in the stricken area. We examined the case of the Kumamoto Earthquake. As a result, we found that the factor making the total effect of the supply-side linkage greater is not the distance between the stricken area and the metropolitan area but rather the strength of industrial linkage.

The objective of this study is to investigate factors influencing the utilization of complementary food products for infants in rural Ghana. In particular, we focus on relationships between agricultural production and utilization of commercialized complementary foods such as fomula milk and weaning foods. Descriptive statistics show that commercialized foods for infants are quite popular in rural Ghana. Estimation of the demand functions reveals that agricultural households spend significantly less for commercialized complementary foods than non-agricultural households after controlling for household per capita income. We find evidence that agricultural households substitute maize for formula milk and plantain for commercialized weaning food products.

The objective of this study is to develop a listing method of information concerning numerous farmlands. I propose a listing method for simplifying the positional relationship between farmlands by searching for the shortest route connecting the target farmlands and sorting the farmland data in the order on that route, while holding other information and ensuring adjacency within paddy fields. As a result of applying this method to a case of virtual farmland use adjustment, good results were obtained. This method is applicable to crop placement problems, scheduling problems and other cases.