Socio-economic characteristic of the agriculture and communities

本研究旨在从三个不同的角度调查日本偏远地区农业和社区的社会经济特征：农业经营、农产品流通渠道建设、农业在区域经济中的作用等三个方面的观点，在本研究的第一年，本研究以日本网走地区（位于北海道）和石垣岛（位于冲绳）为研究对象，对这两个典型的偏远地区的社会经济特征进行了实地考察。第二年，我们对上述两个领域进行了补充研究，并召开了一次实地研究成果总结会。在最后一年，我们仔细检查和组织了每个研究者在会议上提交的结果，并做了一个报告，包括以下四个部分。本报告的第一部分：关于农业和社区的各种社会经济特征对偏远地区的影响的思考。第二部分：考察边远地区农业经营的独特性.第三部分：关于边远地区乡土社区结构的探讨.第四部分：构建新型农产品分销渠道的基础条件研究。

This research is intended to investigate the socio-economic characteristic of the agriculture and communities on remote areas in Japan, from three different viewpoints : agricultural management, construction of distribution channel for agricultural products, and the role of agriculture for a regional economy.Based on above three viewpoints, on the first year of this research, we conducted a field research on Abashiri area (in Hokkaido) and Ishigaki Island (in Okinawa) to discover the socio-economic characteristics of these typical remote areas in Japan. On the second year, we performed a supplementary research on above two areas and held a meeting for summing up the results of field researches. On the final year, we scrutinized and organized the results presented from each researcher on the meeting, and made a report that was consisted of following four parts.1. The first part of this report : Consideration about the implication of the variety of socio-economic characteristic of the agriculture and communities on remote areas.2. The second part of this report : Examination about the uniqueness of agricultural management on remote areas.3. Third part of this report : Discussion about the structure of the local community on remote areas.4. The fourth part of this report : Studies about the basic conditions on constructing a new distribution channel for agricultural products.