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“农会”在第一次世界大战至第二次世界大战期间开展了支持农业营销的活动。在这个过程中，“努开”组织了许多营销合作社，在那卡地区收集和运输特色农产品，特别是竹笋和橘子。“农开”作为中介机构对神户市和大阪市的农产品市场进行销售，试图研究它们的价格和批发经销商的消费趋势。顺便说一下，在那卡地区，地主和佃农之间发生了许多严重的纠纷，农民运动的影响越来越大。这种情况使德岛县和“Noukai”都感到不安。一个必然的结果是，一个农村社区解体了。因此，为了恢复农村社区的秩序，德岛县的“Noukai”尽一切可能组织合作协会。与此同时，“农开”成立了许多营销合作社，以改善农场的管理，村里几乎所有的农民都被组织在合作社中。后者与竞争对手的生产中心竞争，但利用市场行情信息、合作运输和控制交货，在市场共享方面取得了优势，尤其是神户。

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.