Article Info 제28권 3호 강원 농업생명환경연구 Vol.28, No.3, pp.57-65, 2016
Title Participation of Farmers' Organizations and Determinants of Management Scale: Focusing on Farmers in Kuriyama, Japan
Author Yi, H. M.1* and J. T. Goh2
Institutions 1Rural Research Institute Korea Rural Community Corporation, KRC, Ansan 15634, Korea
2Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Korea 
Abstract This research targets the farms in Kuriyama, Japan, a community which solving their own agricultural issues such
as training successors and farmland mobilization phenomenon on a regional basis. The study analyzes future
intentions of participating in farmer’s organization and expanding farmland. The result indicates that firstly, the farms
with a successor shows higher tendency to participate in farmer’s organization as well as to expand their farmland
compared to the farms without a successor. Secondly, when the farming area increases by 1 ha, more farms tends
to participate in farmer’s organization and intends for farmland expansion. However, after a certain area is acquired,
the tendencies to join the farmer’s organization and the intension of farm land expansion decreases. Thirdly, tenant
farms show a decrease in intension to participate in farmer’s organization and to expand their farm lands.
Keyword : Farmer’s organization, Farmland expansion, Kuriyama.
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