農家経済行動分析の動向と新視角
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Many agricultural economists have devoted themselves to the study of the economic behavior of the farm household. However, they have not made special efforts to clarify the present structure of the farm household. It is because of their attitude prejudiced by the traditional theory of agricultural economics and mathematical economics. Structure of the farm household has greatly changed during the postwar industrial spurt. Poverty has dissolved and land utilization has become careless because of the conversion to part-time farming. There are also trends towards concentration, specialization, division of types of production and vertical and horizontal integration, together with the relocation of production. In this paper, I first of all refer to the present structure of the farm household and attempt to describe some different types of agricultural enterprises today in terms of size, organization and economic results. At the same time I give some new ideas about the process of production and the decision of labor force participation in the farm household. The new ideas are as follows. 1) The process of agricultural production can be characterized by the sequential process which is subject to time and/or life bearing. It is also different from the simultaneous process in the manufacturing industry. Plowing, planting and harvesting are considered to be complements for each other, and therefore should not be integrated asan identical operation. 2) The decision of household members to participate in the labor force is not an independent act. Rather, there is a relationship of mutual interdependence. Moreover, according to the findings of the author, the extent to which household members (wife, grandfather, grandmother, son and daughter) participate in the labor force as secondary earners will vary with the form of participation of the primary earner (husband). These new approaches will be useful to analyze the structure of the farm household in the present and the future.
- 三重大学農学部の論文
- 1983-03-00