大規模水田地帯における機械利用組合の再編と法人化の背景 : 北海道の北村を事例として

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This paper presents a case study on overview of reformation and corporation of co-operative farm machinery contract in Kita village, Hokkaido. This character of case study is corporation of cooperative farm machinery contract. Overview of corporation are as follows : Firstly, farmers' debts, which the farmers took on to enlarge farm size, was found to be the major factor to motivate reform of the co-operative farm machinery contract. Therefore, difficulty for an individual farmer to enlarge farm size was also observed. Secondly, the co-operative farm machinery contract was found to have merit in helping farmers increase returns to labor by harvesting rice and wheat in fields near to the land owned by the cooperative. However, getting contracts of harvesting in such lands was found to be getting difficult. This further necessitated enlargement of farmland by reforming co-operative farm machinery contract. This situation is found as the symbolic problem in large scale paddy farm in entire South Sorachi District.
北海道大学の論文
2004-03-12