AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURE REFORM IN PADDY FARMING AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION JURIDICAL PERSON INVESTED BY AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE

2005年3月确定了农业系统目前的前景，其中列出了2015年的结构改革目标，以及新的粮食、农业和农村社会基础计划。提出了培育万家法人企业的目标。作为创建这些新的法人机构的来源之一，JA投资的农业生产法人(APJPIC)首次在政府文件中被正式确认为具有促进农业结构性改革的作用。APJPIC预计将在家庭农场、法人和社区支持的生产组织无法发挥农业生产者作用的农村地区充当最后的农业支持者(Traeger)。1993年修订的土地法承认了这一点，尽管当时农业、森林和渔业部和全国农业合作社联合会都没有积极培育APJPIC。然而，随着最近废弃农田的急剧增加和私营企业要求允许进入耕地利用的压力，自2000年以来，APJPIC一直受到密切关注，最终农业政策寻求积极推动APJPIC的发展。本研究旨在根据2004年9月在全国范围内进行的问卷调查，阐明APJPIC的建设过程、管理结构和经济效益。另一个目标是在分析个别例子的基础上阐明APJPIC的各种类型，并确定这些类型在日本农业重组过程中的意义。

The current outlook for the agricultural system, laying out the structural reform targets for 2015, was determined in March 2005 along with the new foundation plan for food, agriculture and rural society. The goal of nurturing ten thousand juridical person enterprises was raised therein. As one of the sources of creating these new juridical bodies, the Agricultural Production Juridical Person (APJPIC) invested by JA was for the first time officially recognized in a government document as having the role of nurturing structural reform of agriculture.APJPIC is anticipated to act as the agricultural supporter of last resort (Traeger) in rural areas where family farms, legal entities and community supported production organizations cannot play the role of agricultural producer. It was recognized by the revised land law in 1993, although neither the Ministry for Agriculture, Forest and Fishery nor the national union of agricultural cooperatives actively nurtured APJPIC at that time. However, with the recent dramatic increase in abandoned farmland and pressure from private enterprise for permission to enter into the utilization of farmland, since 2000 APJPIC has been keenly watched and finally agricultural policy now seeks to actively promote APJPIC.This study aims to clarify the construction process, management structure and economic performance of APJPIC, based on replies to a questionnaire carried out nationally in September 2004. Another objective is to clarify the various types of APJPIC on the basis of analysis of individual examples, and to establish the significance of these in the reorganization process of Japanese agriculture.