農民層分解の現段階的性格に関する一考察 : 激動期における北海道農業の変貌と農民層分解の特徴

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Under the condition of the rapid economic growth, the agricultural structure has been rapidly changing through the process of farmers' pursuance of better reward for their labour. This process also accelerates the differentiation of farm managements into a developing group and a non-developing one. As a whole, a large numer of farmers, especially farmers with small and medium sized holdings, have become to depend more upon the income from the subsidiary jobs. At the same time, however, large scale farms have increased in number forming a developing group in such farming area as Hokkaiao and Tohoku. In Hokkaido, where in the last ten years the agricultural production increased most remarkably among various rigions of Japan, total number of farms has decreased by about 4 percent annually. While farms of large scale, such as rice growing farms with more than 5 hectares of land and dairy farms with more than 20 hectares of land, have increased rapidly in number, and have introduced farm machinery to get higher crop yields with saved labour. The fact mentioned above means that the government policies for agriculture are drawn up to of 'tenantright', and the law of strict settlement. cope with a task of industrial development. In this connection, the following facts are noteworthy. Firstly, the increased supply of agricultural products, which are priced moderately, has been promoted by pressure from international trade polices as well. Secondary, the price-supportiong measures have been strengthened, but these measures have given different influences on farm economy of different groups. That is to say, as the gap of productivity between farms of large scale, or farms in the upper strata of farming classes, and small and medium sized farms, or farms in the lower farming class, has been widened, the supported levels of producers prices are not enough high to secure the reproduction for the most of farmers in the lower class, but they give developing farmers better conditions. Thirdly, the agricultural credit, which are furnished relative affluently to the developing farmers through the institutional financing schemes, has played the decisive role in tractorization and enlargement of farm size. We can say that in the present stage of Japanese agriculture the developing group of farms in the upper strata of farming classes has not been formed spontaneously under the conditions of free competition, but been taken shape by the supporting policies of government.
政治経済学・経済史学会の論文
1971-01-20

農民層分解の現段階的性格に関する一考察 : 激動期における北海道農業の変貌と農民層分解の特徴

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