農業法人の諸形態と発展方向

Abstract

One of reasons of recent increase of the interest in farm corporation is the rise of the doubt about especially the ability of factor procurement. and continuity of family farm entity. In this paper farm corporations are categorized into three types from the view piont of their relation to family farm and the characteristics and implications of each type are investigated. The three types are as follows: 1. farm corporation sole 2. collective farm corporation substitutive with family farm 3. collective farm corporation complimentary with family farm a. farm corporation complimentary from outside of the organization b. farm corporation complimentary within the organization Farm corporation can be dichotomized in to the substitutive corporation which replace family farm through the complete merger family farm and the complementary corporation which complement the functions of the family farm through the merger of partial functions of the family farm and the collective farm entity. Both types of farm entity have important implications, but one of the important conclusions of this paper is that the development of the complementary farm entity will make family farms properly adapt to the future economic society and play important roles in Japanese agriculture.