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

随着坂神地区的城市化和日本经济结构的变化，德岛县农会“农会”在一战至二战期间开展了农业营销的支援活动。在这一过程中，“能开”组织了许多销售合作社，在纳卡地区收集和运送特色农产品，特别是竹笋和柑橘橙子。“Noukai”作为神户市和大坂市农产品市场销售的中介机构，试图研究其价格和批发商以及消费趋势。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。这一情况使德岛县和“能海”都陷入困境。作为一个必然的结果，一个农村社区已经解体。因此，为了恢复农村社区的秩序，德岛县的“能海”尽一切努力组织合作社。与此同时，“能海”为了改善农场经营，在农村建立了许多销售合作社，几乎把全村的农民都组织起来，与竞争对手的生产中心进行竞争，但通过利用市场信息、合作运输和控制交货等手段，在市场尤其是科比市场上占了上风。

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.