Supporting Activities of Agricultural Association "Noukai" for the Competitive Market in the period between the World War I and II

随着阪神地区的城市化和日本经济结构的变化，德岛县农会Noukai在第一次世界大战至第二次世界大战期间开展了农产品营销的配套活动。在此过程中，Noukai组织了许多营销合作社，在Naka地区收集和运输当地的特色农产品，特别是竹笋和柑橘。作为对神户、大阪农贸市场的中介机构，《奴凯》对其价格、批发商及消费趋势进行了研究。顺便说一句，在纳卡地区，地主和佃农之间发生了许多严重的纠纷，农民运动的影响也越来越大。这种情况冲击了德岛县和Noukai两个县。作为一个必然的结果，一个农村社区已经脱离。因此，为了恢复农村社区的秩序，德岛县的“Noukai”竭尽全力组织合作协会。同时，为了改善农场的管理，“奴凯”成立了许多营销合作社，村里几乎所有的农民都组织在里面。后者与竞争对手的生产中心展开了竞争，但通过利用市场行情信息、合作运输和控制交付，获得了市场份额，特别是神户。

With urbanization in Hanshin district and structural change of Japanese economy, the agricultural association "Noukai" of Tokushima Prefecture had developed supporting activities for agricultural marketing in the period between the World War I and II. In this process, many marketing cooperatives were organized by "Noukai" to collect and ship special agricultural products localities, especially bamboo shoot and mandarin orange, in Naka district. "Noukai" as a agency of mediation for sale to agricultural market of Kobe-shi and Osaka-shi, tried to research their prices and wholesale dealers and a trend of consumption. By the way, in Naka district many serious disputes between landowners and tenant farmers occurred and farmer's movement gained in influence. This situation thrusted both Tokushima Prefecture and "Noukai". As a necessary consequence, a rural community has disjoined. So in order to restore the order of a rural community, "Noukai" of Tokushima Prefecture exerted all possible efforts to organize cooperative associations. At the same period, "Noukai" setted up many marketing cooperatives to improve a farm management and almost all farmers in the village were organized in it. And the latter entered into competition with rival producing center, but got the better of sharing the market especially Kobe by utilizing information of market conditions, cooperative shipping and controlling delivery.