Download or read book JA Japan Agricultural Cooperatives written by Daman Prakash and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Betting on the Farm written by Patricia L. Maclachlan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA), a nationwide network of farm cooperatives, is under increasing pressure to expand farmer incomes by adapting coop strategies to changing market incentives. Some coops have adapted more successfully than others. In Betting on the Farm, Patricia L. Maclachlan and Kay Shimizu attribute these differences to three sets of local variables: resource endowments and product-specific market conditions, coop leadership, and the organization of farmer-members behind new coop strategies. Using in-depth case studies and profiles of different types of farmers, Betting on the Farm also explores the evolution of the formal and informal institutional foundations of postwar agriculture; the electoral sources of JA's influence; the interactive effects of economic liberalization and demographic pressures (an aging farm population and acute shortage of farm successors) on the propensity for change within the farm sector; and the diversification of Japan's traditional farm households and the implications for farmer ties with JA.
Download or read book Sowing the Seeds of the Future written by Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives (JA-ZENCHU) and published by . This book was released on with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comparison of Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan and Thailand written by Ratchanee Mukhjang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary objective of development is to enhance the quality of live but the preceding development process with the use of the striking technological revolutions and the modernization of extraction industries have not result in well-being of people everywhere. Sustainable development is the main desirable for the world's nation. Cooperatives could form a particularly significant mechanism for the development of the marginalized sections of the society since they have strong ties to local communities. There are a lot of research reports related to agricultural cooperatives in Thailand and Japan but there are very few studies that compare the performance of the agricultural cooperatives in these two countries especially for case studies. Moreover, this research project went into the field work in Aichi prefecture in Japan. As a descriptive survey research, data collection was done during April, 2008 to June, 2011. In addition, the observation units for quantitative data are annual reports of these cooperatives. The qualitative data are obtained from indebt interview with mangers, board members and government involved. Furthermore, secondary data were used. This comparative study analyzed from the institutional economic perspectives, so the framework starts with the independent variables called institutional factors namely top down orientation, the structure of the board, the government policies, spirit of cooperation. Results of the study show that only the first factor, the top-down policy is alike while the others are different. JA- Aichihigashi run along different lines to Tawangpha and Watchan agricultural cooperatives. By comparison, the performances of the two agricultural cooperatives in Thailand are less than those in Japan. Cash deposit is the most important business for them. Tawangpa agricultural cooperative in particular create a network with a private company, support a woman group, use a radio station to make a closer relationship with their members. Moreover, the managers was selected to join the international training program. Apart from sale and purchase, the JA do the interesting business and services including banking, insurance - the highest value business, training, funeral , marriage counseling , farm guidance - it is unique. About the significant financial ratio that represent the capital strength, asset quality, earning and liquidity are 1.83,1.4, 3.96 and 0.987 respectively for Tawangpa agricultural cooperative. As for Watjun agricultural cooperative, those ratios are 0.79, 1.47, 1.37 and 1.49 respectively. Apart from that, the ratios for JA Aichihigashi are 0.91, 0.18, 17.57 and 1.05 respectively. What this study has suggested are that the agricultural cooperatives in Thailand should provide more activities for members - from the cradle to the grave like in Japan. For example, they should, more important, they should apply the principles of the philosophy - Sufficiency Economy, bestowed by His Majesty the King.
Download or read book After Radical Land Reform written by Gavin Muchetu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing the Zimbabwean and Japanese agrarian experience may sound impossible. Still, the similarities in the socio-economic and political realities of their respective radical land reforms and grain policies provide scope for such an endeavour. This book examines the aftermath of Japans radical land reform and the development of her cooperatives. It then compares it to the nature and character of the Zimbabwe post-land reform agrarian structure. The author collected and analysed data from three villages in Japan, and three in Zimbabwe to understand different types of cooperatives, their growths, and constraints. Three distinct types of cooperatives emerged from Japans 70-year experience in cooperative development. One of these three was identified as providing more relevant lessons necessary for restructuring the British-Indian type of cooperatives currently obtaining in Zimbabwe. The central argument is that the radical Fast-Track Land Reform Programme provided a rare platform (as it did in Japan) to develop robust, genuine grassroots cooperatives from below. Based on a global political economy reading of agricultural production, the book sieves the pros and cons of the Japanese agricultural cooperative system with knowledge systems from the Zimbabwe movement to advance a new agricultural cooperative development framework for Zimbabwe and other post-colonial states.
Download or read book The Changing Economic Performance and Political Significance of Japan s Agricultural Cooperatives written by Yoshihisa Godo and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Outline of Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan written by Japan. Nōrinshō. Nōrin Keizaikyoku. Nōgyō Kyōdō Kumiaika and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harvesting State Support written by Hanno Jentzsch and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-05-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture has been among the toughest political battlegrounds in postwar Japan and represents an ideal case study in institutional stability and change. Inefficient land use and a rapidly aging workforce have long been undermining the economic viability of the agricultural sector. Yet vested interests in the small-scale, part-time agricultural production structure have obstructed major reforms. Change has instead occurred in more subtle ways. Since the mid-1990s, a gradual reform process has dismantled some of the core pillars of the postwar agricultural support and protection regime. Harvesting State Support analyzes this process by shifting the analytical focus to the local level. Drawing on extensive qualitative field research, Hanno Jentzsch investigates how local actors, including farmers, local governments, and local agricultural cooperatives, have translated abstract policies into local practice. Showing how local variants are constructed through recombining national reforms with the local informal institutional environment, Harvesting State Support reveals new links between agricultural reform and other shifts in Japan’s political economy.
Download or read book Agricultural Cooperative Movement in Japan written by Zenkoku Nōgyō Kyōdō Kumiai Chūōkai and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan written by Madhav Vishvanath Madane and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japan Shadow WTO Agricultural Domestic Support Notifications written by Yoshihisa Godo and Daisuke Takahashi and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Aspects of Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan written by Japan. Nōrinshō. Nōrin Keizaikyoku. Nogyo Kyoko Kumiaibu and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Agriculture in Japan written by Aurelia George Mulgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture is one of the most politically powerful sectors in Japanese national politics. This book provides the first comprehensive account of the political power of Japanese farmers. This definitive text analyses the organisational and electoral bais of farmers' political power, including the role of agricultural interest groups, the mobilisation of the farm vote and links between farmers and politicians in the Diet. Agrarian power has helped to produce the distinctly pro-rural, anti-urban bias of postwar Japanese governments, resulting in a general neglect of urban consumer interests and sustained opposition to market opening for farm products. This book represents a major study of Japanese agricultural organisations in their multifarious roles as interest groups, agents of agricultural administration, electoral resource providers and mammouth business groups. It describes the policy issues that engage farmers' concerns and identifies the agricultural commodities that carry the greatest political significance.
Download or read book Japan s New Ruralities written by Wolfram Manzenreiter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking to challenge negative perceptions within Japanese media and politics on the future of the countryside, the contributors to this book present a counterargument to the inevitable demise of rural society. Contrary to the dominant argument, which holds outmigration and demographic hyper-aging as primarily responsible for rural decline, this book highlights the spatial dimension of power differences behind uneven development in contemporary Japan. Including many fi eldwork-based case studies, the chapters discuss topics such as corporate farming, local energy systems and public healthcare, examining the constraints and possibilities of rural self-determination under the centripetal impact of forces located both in and outside of the country. Focusing on asymmetries of power to explore regional autonomy and heteronomy, it also examines "peripheralization" and the "global countryside," two recent theoretical contributions to the fi eld, as a common framework. Japan’s New Ruralities addresses the complexity of rural decline in the context of debates on globalization and power differences. As such, it will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, human geography and politics, as well as Japanese Studies.
Download or read book Treatise on Cooperation in Japanese Agriculture A written by Takekazu Ogura and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Becoming a Farmer in Contemporary Japan written by Niccolò Lollini and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an agricultural cooperative running a training programme for aspiring farmers, this book explores the possibilities of agrarian and land-based modes of livelihood in contemporary Japan. The book is organised around the four key hurdles faced by new agricultural entrants: the acquisition of land and housing, farming know-how, capital, and market outlets. New farmers look with fresh eyes at agricultural issues, and their experiences provide a vantage point over the institutions shaping rural and agricultural life. The book documents the mounting problem of land and house abandonment in regional Japan, the role of agriculture in the revitalisation of rural communities, and the transformation of Japan’s agrifood system. To avoid reinforcing Japan’s exceptionalism, agricultural policy, farming practices, and fresh food distribution are analysed from a comparative perspective, shedding new light on processes of agrarian change in developed market economies. Providing an in-depth insight into pro-rural migration in the face of Japan’s shrinking regions and its declining agricultural sector, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Japanese society, agrarian policy, and rural sociology.
Download or read book The Next Rural Economies written by Greg Halseth and published by CABI. This book was released on 2010 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the future of rural development and the recognition of the growing importance of 'place-based economies' where the unique attributes and assets of individual places determine their attractiveness for particular types of activities and investments. New understandings of competitiveness and conceptualizations of a new economy underline the importance of making strategic investments in community infrastructure. Doing things, at the local and regional scales, matters and not doing things has consequences. Topics include seasonal economies, amenity migration, IT industries, green energy and transportation developments.
