Comprehensive Research of Comparison on the Reform and Reorganization of the Agricultural Cooperatives in the Developed Countries under the WTO System

20世纪80年代以后的世界农业以全球化和区域经济一体化为特征。而农业企业部门跨国企业体系的形成和农产品自由贸易的深入，迫使发达国家的农业结构重组，家庭农场和农业合作社的危机，不仅是农业进口国(日本)，也包括出口国(美国和欧盟)。本研究获得了关于农业合作社改革和重组的最新信息。本研究的一个显著特点是方法上，在欧盟，我们注意到瑞典丹麦的奶业合作社出现了新的跨界一体化；在美国，我们调查了奶牛场和奶制品合作社；在中西部地区的上州，新一代合作社的诞生；在日本，所谓的日式农业合作社引起了相当大的关注，我们解决了小合作社的生存问题。

The world agriculture after the 1980s is characterized by the globalization and the area economic integration. And the formation of the system of multinational enterprises in the agribusiness section and the thoroughgoing free trade of agricultural products have forced the reorganization of the agricultural structure, the crisis of family farms and agricultural cooperatives in the developed countries not only the agricultural import country(Japan) but also the export countries(USA and EU).This research has obtained newest information about the reform and reorganization of the agricultural cooperatives.A distinctive feature of this study is the method, which combines the investigations of the actual conditions of agricultural cooperatives with the analysis of the family farms.In the European Union we have noticed new cross-border integration of the dairy cooperatives in Demark und Sweden.In the United State we have investigated the dairy farms and dairy cooperatives, and the birth of the New Generation Cooperatives in the upper states in the Midwestern area.In Japan the so-called Japan-style agricultural cooperatives attract considerable attention and we have tackled the problem of the survivor of small cooperatives.