農業法人とインテグレーション : 農業生産者の事業多角化・企業グループの形成を中心に

Abstract

It is known that the firm decides on diversified business as the strategy of growth to get over the limits of the optimum scale. And this firm uses integration with merger and acquisition of business as external growth. In Japan, since 1960 s the large trading companies, feed manufacturing companies, and meat packing companies have gone into poultry and hog production. It is called Integration in the Livestock Production. These companies have operated the direct management or the production contract with farmers. On the other hand, the farmer has recently organized the agricultural corporation, and used integration for expansion of business. A purpose of this paper is analysis of the motivation and the details of integration of the farmers' corporation. The following was explained with findings of the mail survy and the exploration in livestock production. Farmers have organized the small grouping of companies. Variety of the company has been feeder cattle production, feeding, feed manufacturing and compost manufacturing in a production area, and processing in a marketing area. Its purpose is growth of business to get over the limits of the optimum production scale.