土地改良の負担金問題

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The protective policies of agriculture in the Postwar Japan consists of both policies of maintaining a price of agricultural products and subsidy policies for farmers which improves the agrarian structure. The major policy of the former is the system of foods control (Shokkan), and the latter is land improvement enterprise for the large- scale readjustment of arable land. The charges for land improvement enterprise are mostly borne by national treasuries. and they are on the increase from year to year. But the charges of farmers exceed that of the state recently. The charges of farmers for land improvement enterprise are growing remarkablly. This fact forces the farmers to be deprived of investing in the enterprise. A low price of Rice, increasing of part-time farmers and so on prevent small-scale farmings from taking part in the enterprise, which is an obstacle to progress of the agricultural productibity. It seems to me that there is a large contradiction in the protective policies of agriculture; namely, one between policies of maintaining a price of agricultural products and subsidy policies of impoving the agrarian structure. In this papser, though the fieldwork of Ogata-machi in Niigata, we try to examine this point at issue.