Increase in Part-time Farmers and the Development of Agricultural Organization

日本的农业在这二三十年里发生了翻天覆地的变化。全职农民的数量一直在减少。目前有84%的农户从事兼职经营，出现了许多形式多样的农业组织。他们同样打算实现机械化农业，这需要比以前大得多的农田。他们的农业经营方式和存在的问题可能会为日本未来农业的发展指明方向。我与三个农业组织打交道。TAKATANA农业协会，爱知九农合作水稻种植18年。他们的年收入是普通工薪阶层的两倍。这里缺乏组织创新，这肯定是农业组织最大的问题。香港理工大学农业协会、岐阜市6名前工薪族1975年开始务农，实现机械化农业。他们需要援助来更新机器和设备。由于家禽养殖业不景气，他们陷入了僵局。

Agriculture in Japan has drastically changed these two or three decades. The number of full-time farmers has been decreasing. 84 percents of all farm households are now occupied with part-time households.There have appeared a lot of agricultural organization in various forms. They equally intend to realize machinalized agriculture, which needs much larger farmland than before. Ways and problems of their agricultural management may show some possible directions of future agriculture in Japan. I deal with three agricultural organizations.TAKATANA Farming Association, Aichi Nine farmers cooperate inrice cropping for 18 years. They get double of annual income of average salaried worker.. Here organizational innovation is lacking which must be the greatest problem of the farming organization. OHKUTE Farming Association, Gifu Six former salaried workers started farming to realize machinalized agriculture 1975. They need aid to renew machines and equipments. Yamafunakoshi, Miyagi They have come to a deadlock because of the depression in poultry farming.