日本会は1924年に設立されている．それ以降，今日まで，農業・農村におけるあらゆる領域の問題を研究の対象としてきた．研究領域が拡大するとともに，その中の特定分野を一層深く専門的に研究しようという目的で関連する専門分野の研究会が設立され，学会に発展している．本稿では，まず第1に，いくつかの関連学会を取り上げ，会の会員とそれらの学会の会員との相互関係について考察することで日本会の位置づけを再確認したい．第2に，関連学会協議会の組織について，その活動の現状と課題について検討する．そして最後に，の学問領域の広がりと学際化について触れる．

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本報告では，韓国会（KAEA）の組織と運営の現状，学術活動の内容を中心に，主に文献資料を用いて，その特徴と問題点を分析し今後の課題を提示した．KAEAは関連学会の中で最も歴史が長く規模も大きく，国内外の農業構造の変化に伴い，その役割と機能への改革が求められている．具体的には，まず，強い責任感と心意気を持って先導的な役割を遂行すること．第2に，自主財源により財政基盤を築くこと．第3に，学会誌の研究対象を広め方法論を多様化すること．第4に，討論会の活性化とともに農政イシューや農業・農村問題に対して積極的な姿勢で議論し解決方策を提示すること．最後に，国際交流機能を強化することである．

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This paper is whistle-blowing in opposition to the Japanese Agricultural Economics Society. This society is thriving on the surface; there are many publishing opportunities for agricultural economists, and the enrollments in graduate courses of agricultural economics has increased significantly during the past ten years. However, this reality is filled with vanity—most agricultural economists do not understand even intermediate-level economics; they publicize themselves through bluffs by using difficult languages and equations; and they are unconcerned with the macroeconomic losses caused by the government's agricultural protection policies. This disastrous situation should be compared to the failure of the "export-substitution policy" protection by the large amount of jargon produced by agricultural economists in useless studies that are distributed. In this way, this society forms a shelter for unskilled researchers who want to proceed peacefully with their research projects without undergoing fierce academic training or severe critiques. Cheap mutual admiration rampant in this society also attracts younger generations who want to do what they want just as they please, creating a situation that may be likened to depraved logrolling. In the true sense of research, this society does more harm than good. Some agricultural economists pretend that their major is not "agricultural economics," but something else like "game theory" or "resource economics." But most of them have not acquired sufficient academic ability in these "nonagricultural" fields and prefer remaining in the community of agricultural economists. These self-styled nonagricultural economists are regarded as agricultural economists in this paper. Furthermore, although many universities recently have changed the course name of "agricultural economics" to other names, such as "food economics" or "resource economics," they are also included under the category of "agricultural economics" in this paper.

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Japanese agriculture is actually undergoing absolute decline. Agricultural economics, as long as they recognize only agricultural facts, cannot check this decline. To work out a solution to this problem, two hidden powers must be found―one is the hiding power among the historical facts of modern society; the other is the hiding powers in Japanese agriculture. The modern society that we can understand through a general view of the twentieth century is characterized as a network of triplecracy (my coined word) organized under the dominant powers of econocracy (coined word; economic control), technocracy, and bureaucracy. Modern society has been in activitiy under this network since the Industrial Revolution as it aimed at the efficient maximization of productivity. Japanese agriculture, which had been included in the value system of industrial society, has now lost proper meaning and direction as a result of industrialization, especially because of the overuse of chemicals, the urbanization of rural society, and the domination by bureaucrats in agricultural policies. The proper meaning of agriculture implicates the durability, contentment, and joy of human life (including life, living, and life style). Agriculture life and human life are closely correlated, but the triplecracy of modern industrial society has neglected this proper meaning of agriculture. Agricultural economics has also neglected the agricultural values in human life. The New proposition of agricultural economics aims at the restoration of agriculture and human life by the propulsion of circulating techniques in agriculture, the innnovation of regional agriculture based on regional complexes, the recognition on important roles of agricultural education, and the restoration of joy in farmers' families. The reconstruction of agriculture means the restoration of normal human life.

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This study shows a basic proposal of an alternative scheme of rice production control as an ‘environment-conscious' set-aside program. The scheme is designed to consist of a regular set-aside program to produce crops other than rice as well as an environmental program of extensive rice farming practice to reduce rice yield by half with few chemical applications as a cross compliance. It will be able to ensure full usage of paddy lands for agricultural production and increase multifunctional benefits from biodiversity and landscape conservation.
Whether it is actually possible to implement the new scheme is likely to depend upon field conditions and the existence of local leading farmers. The plan of the set-aside program should take into consideration both mechanical and biological conditions of local fields. Mechanical conditions such as plot formation and accessibility of field passage are significant to encourage large scale farming of both rice and the other crops efficiently. Ground water level for drainage is an important biological condition that determines the performance of raising other crops. Small farm managements under the worse biological condition of paddy fields might be likely to adopt an environmental program with direct payments.
The study constructs its own analytical database of field conditions and rice farming on a local field basis, examines an appropriate grant level to stimulate program participation, and calculates a quantitative result of expected set-aside allocation. A joint application of new extensive farming and regular set-aside programs could effectively accomplish a national rice control plan without entailing wasteland.

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