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Agricultural Management Lab
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A farm management lab where students' own concerns drive the study of agricultural issues.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring agricultural issues from students' own interests.
The Farm Management Lab conducts research in line with each student's own concerns.
Because students choose the topics of their bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses themselves, the subjects vary widely, including corporate entry into agriculture, agricultural consultants, and heat-tolerant paddy rice varieties.
For students who are unsure what they want to do, the lab provides guidance suited to their worries, such as helping them think about what they are interested in.
The lab aims to be a place where members think things through together by discussing them.
Key terms
- Protected horticulture
- Agriculture that grows vegetables and flowers inside facilities such as plastic greenhouses. It requires large initial investment in equipment
- Heat-tolerant variety
- A variety of crops such as rice that is less prone to heat damage, in which summer heat lowers yield or quality
- Agricultural consultant
- A specialist who examines the problems of a farm business and gives advice on solving them. Some work as private companies
ResearchResearch themes
In this lab, each student develops their own concerns and carries out research according to their interests. The research topics of graduates are diverse, including corporate entry into agriculture, agricultural consultants, heat-tolerant paddy rice varieties, and agricultural high schools.
*Illustrative imageCorporate entry into agriculture and business continuity
Using Miyagi Prefecture as a case, the lab investigated the conditions under which companies from outside agriculture that entered protected horticulture can continue their business, and how many years it takes them to become profitable. It found that keeping initial investment low is important for reaching profitability.
*Illustrative imageThe potential of agricultural consultants
The lab investigated the potential of private-sector agricultural consultants to help solve agricultural issues. It interviewed the consultants, as well as farm businesses that have used them without achieving results and farm businesses that have achieved results.
*Illustrative imageIntroduction of heat-tolerant paddy rice varieties
Considering that one reason for rising rice prices is reduced supply due to heat damage, the lab investigated the factors that encourage and hinder the introduction of heat-tolerant varieties. It conducted interviews with producer organizations in two prefectures in the Tohoku region.
*Illustrative imageThe role of agricultural high schools today
The lab investigated how much agricultural high schools contribute to developing future leaders for their communities and for agriculture, in the Sendai and Sennan areas of Miyagi Prefecture. It conducted interviews and questionnaires with teachers, students, and local residents.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Farm Management Lab are faculty, students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs, and undergraduate research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorHisako Sekine
- Associate ProfessorAsato Mizuki
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “(Landscape of rice fields and agricultural terracing in Japan) - DPLA - efedd36882e2f87dd5086186b61df091” Carlquist, Sherwin John / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Corporate entry into agriculture and business continuity: “Fabric tension greenhouse 01” Wikideas1 / CC0 (cropped)
- The potential of agricultural consultants: “Unload wheat by the combine Claas Lexion 584” Michael Gäbler / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Introduction of heat-tolerant paddy rice varieties: “Rice-field” 些細な
日常 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - The role of agricultural high schools today: “School garden at Balubal high school with urine reuse collected from UDDT (Cagayan de Oro) ( )” SuSanA Secretariat / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (地域資源計画学): “Kashanak village, North Khorasan, Iran - landscape” RZZ Archive / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (環境経済学): “Alamar Organic Farm beds” SamHolt6 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (国際開発学): “Banaue Philippines Batad-Rice-Terraces-02” CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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(作物学): “Wheat field - geograph.org.uk - 216367” Richard Webb / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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