It may not be possible to bring up agriculture by blind analogical conclusion that the international competitive power will be secured by propelling agricultural structure improvement business and that it will change to the agriculture of advanced cou...
It may not be possible to bring up agriculture by blind analogical conclusion that the international competitive power will be secured by propelling agricultural structure improvement business and that it will change to the agriculture of advanced countries' type, or by uncertain vision or stroking policy. The synesthesia among residents in the agricultural community, farmers, agricultural organizations and the government is required for the development of agriculture. That is, in case of Japan, general trading companies develop the agricultural community saving movement of the business level and these companies participate in sales of regional special products by utilizing their existing organizations and sales network or they act as the managment consultants for tourism farms, they consider the project even as a portion of their business territory, therefore, we should make such facts as reference and reliability between every individual should be restored first of all The analyzed results of farmers' consciousness which have been show at this time are as follows.
1) As our agriculture has weak production foundation in the scale of the leveled ground, adjustment of cultivated land, management form of farm house, capital structure, technology and manpower, its productivity is very low level. Accordingly, the counterproposal is urgently required to continue to attain a long-term goal, to prevent occurrence of damage caused by the abrupt change of policy and the separated reliability from the reality, and to reduce the sense of suffering damage by the producers.
2) The import of agricultural products has been accelerated, without protection of domestic production, due to the aspect of securing the shorted food and other external factors. The strong intention of price control policy is executed, but the simple compensating support for farm products has the strong nature of welfare and prosperity supporting aspect rather than for reproduction, and a portion of damage and loss of the producers might be compensated, but the desire for reproduction could not be improved, and therefore, the price upholding policy should go first.
3) In accordance with increased width of importing agricultural products, there is no way but the cultivation of the existing farm products shall be affected directly or indirectly. Accordingly, farmers are forced to select which kinds of products is urgent to replace the reduced producing products, as far as the replaced products are not exported, it has the same negative influence to domestic agricultural production, and therefore, it is the only way to minimize the damage by opening import by stably cultivating the items judged to have possibility of export and the replacing products with import.
4) While the number of farm houses is generally decreasing at present, the number of non-farm houses in the farm community is rapidly decreasing phenomenon. It suggests that the agricultural condition of the petty farmers of low income is generally worsening and they are gradually losing their foundation of life in and out of agriculture.
Especially, manufacturers are increasingly moving into the suburbs of cities, which absorbs the rural population, and especially, when we observe the fact that the removal of youth causes not only many problems on agricultur but also 30.6% of the present residents wish to give up farming within 3 years it is the most urgent subject to be studied preferentially in the course of agricultural development through improvement of agricultural structure.
5) Although it is desirable that investment in agricultural line shall be enlarged by agricultural producers themselves, the intention of investment showed dubiosity by 45.6%, investment in facilities (such as house) was concentrated, and the domestic production quantity of fruits and vegetables was increased or concentrated in accordance with this survey by questionarie, which indicates the instability of prices due to unbalanced adjustment of demand and supply, and therefore, the necessity of establishing its countermeasure is enlarged.
6) Upbringing successors and strengthening technique.
The presentation of possibility of agricultural development and the motive giving to participate in the education voluntarily are necessary. (In case of Japan, those persons who learned agricultural technique receive a fixed amount of money monthly, and as soon as completion of education, various facilities, farming machines, and practice machines and materials required for production will be lent free of charge to them and a portion of management cost will be supported, and also, the instructors engage in farming personally to demonstrate earning high income, which presents the possibility and give motive to participate in education voluntarily.)
The efficiency of management should be upgraded by providing countermensure of specialization of leading manpower, strengthening research function and participating private economic portion of agriculture related industry in the development of agricultural technique.
It is necessary to guide to attain the investgative and commercial farming by providing fundamental invest and condition toward strengthening competitive power of agricultrural compensation by recognizing the importance of agriculture and also by improving farming technique by agricultural producers themselves and by reducing costs and at the same time by improving quality of farm products.