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Agricultural Management Lab
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The lab studies the growth and generational change of farm businesses through on-site fieldwork.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding the growth of farm businesses from the field
The Farm Management Lab studies the directions and underlying logic of growth in diverse farm businesses in Japan and abroad.
In recent years, the lab has focused on generational change in farm businesses, examining cases where no relative can take over and the fact that handovers become harder as farms grow larger.
Alongside analysis based on the literature and statistics, the lab places importance on empirical research through fieldwork in rural areas in Japan and abroad.
At the weekly farm management study meeting, members present their research to one another, and undergraduates also join the rural field surveys.
Key terms
- Management factors
- The basic elements that make a farm business possible. In farm management, these include land, capital, labor, and the manager.
- Management resources
- What a business uses to keep operating. Besides farmland, machinery, and funds, they include intangible things such as skills and business partners.
- Fieldwork
- A research method in which researchers visit rural communities and farms in person and collect data through interviews and observation.
ResearchResearch themes
Farm management is a discipline built on the characteristics of management factors such as land, capital, labor, and the manager, and on how combining them forms a management organization and how it is operated and managed. In response to problems that arise in real farm businesses, the lab takes up themes such as management succession, regional support, and agricultural policy.
*Illustrative imageGenerational change in farm businesses
In recent years, even large farm businesses have found it difficult to hand over to the next generation. The lab investigates how hard it is for farms without a relative as successor to pass management resources to non-relatives, as well as the problems of passing on intangible resources such as skills and business partners, and of the slow shift from family farming to corporate management.
*Illustrative imageChallenges shared with other countries, studied from the field
Problems such as generational change are not unique to Japan; countries in Europe, North America, and Asia face them too. Alongside analysis of the literature and statistics, the lab conducts empirical research through fieldwork in rural areas in Japan and abroad.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKan Higashiyama
- Associate ProfessorTomomi Komatsu
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Panoramic Shimizu” Hokkaido-man / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Generational change in farm businesses: “Tokachi Plain aerial view near Obihiro Hokkaido” T.Kiya / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Challenges shared with other countries, studied from the field: “Silos in Tokachi, Hokkaido P6260665” 白蛇の
騎士 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped) - Related lab (Regional Partnership Economics Lab): “Honbetsu north” Opqr / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Agricultural Resource Economics Lab): “A sea of ripe wheat - geograph.org.uk - 905835” Zorba the Geek / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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