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Management Information and Accounting Lab
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The lab supports decision-making in farm management with data and calculation.
AboutAbout the lab
Theory and practice that support decision-making in farm management.
The lab studies the quantitative management of farm businesses when new technologies such as smart agriculture are introduced, as well as investment and financial planning and control.
It also works on building and testing agricultural innovation systems for the era of digitalization and climate change.
Building on farm management, agricultural informatics, agricultural accounting, and agricultural extension, the lab conducts fundamental and empirical research that supports decision-making in farm management.
For undergraduates, the lab is one of the fields to which students are assigned in the Department of Food and Environmental Economics; for graduate students, it accepts students in the Division of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture.
Key terms
- Mathematical programming
- Methods of finding the best solution under given constraints using mathematical formulas; linear programming is a typical example
- Smart agriculture
- Agriculture that uses new technologies such as robots, sensors, and data
- Agricultural innovation system
- A system in which farmers, researchers, engineers, and extension workers cooperate to create and spread new technologies
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies quantitative management and business planning for farms adopting new technologies, as well as agricultural innovation systems in the era of digitalization and climate change.
*Illustrative imageBuilding a Database of Agricultural Technologies
The lab organizes the costs and benefits, changes in working hours, and other effects of introducing new technologies such as smart agriculture into a database. It aims to build an information foundation that supports the adoption of new technologies and the farm business design of people newly entering farming.
*Illustrative imageBusiness Planning Under Risk
Farm management faces many uncertainties and risks, such as market fluctuations, extreme weather, and pests and diseases. The lab develops systems that incorporate these into mathematical programming methods such as linear programming, to support more practical business planning and decision-making.
*Illustrative imageNew Models of Agricultural Extension
A new form of extension is needed, in which local farmers, researchers, and engineers develop technologies together and extension workers act as intermediaries. Focusing mainly on examples from OECD member countries, the lab studies what new agricultural innovation systems should look like.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Management Information and Accounting Lab consist of faculty and students in the doctoral program, master's program, and undergraduate program.
- ProfessorShusuke Matsushita
- Associate ProfessorMasayasu Asai
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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: “Rice terraces ,Ishikawa pref 2” Motokoka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Building a Database of Agricultural Technologies: “Figure 16 Components of a Precision Agriculture System ( )” U.S. Government Accountability Office from Washington, DC, United States / Public domain (cropped)
- Business Planning Under Risk: “Catoctin Mountain and farm MD1” Acroterion / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- New Models of Agricultural Extension: “Cotton farmer and ag extension agent in Pulaski County, Arkansas” U.S. Department of Agriculture / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Agricultural and Food Organization Management Lab): “The bakery of a Food Lion supermarket in Clyde, North Carolina” Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Comparative Agrarian History Lab): “Farmers of forty centuries - Japanese family gathering and threshing barley” Unknown photographer / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Economics and Policy Lab): “Forest in Okuchichibu Mountains 01” Σ64 / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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