Analysis of the challenges and directions for the growth of income in the agricultural production sector
Faculty of Agriculture Department of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Food and Agricultural Economics
Agricultural Marketing
Professor
YUTAKA Tomoyuki
Background and objectives of activities
Increasing agricultural income promotes agricultural development. Moreover, it has become a major goal of agricultural professionals. In this study, we developed a method to quantitatively elucidate the contribution of the various components of income from agricultural production to income growth. The method is applied to the production areas and crops identified as necessary to derive results and to discuss key issues for income growth based on the results, with the aim of contributing to income growth in practice.
Summary of Activities
This method is characterized by the fact that it grasps the factor contributions to the rate of income growth of the average individual management entity in the identified production areas and crops from multiple perspectives and actively utilizes published or tailor-made data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries' Survey of Agricultural Management Statistics as necessary information for the analysis.
So far, faculty members and students have jointly conducted analyses of various production areas and crops. Among them, in the case of kansho for raw material use in Kagoshima Prefecture, we found that the important factors for income growth are labor investment time and unit yield. The results of the more detailed analysis were reported to agricultural professionals in the JA Kagoshima KIMOTSUKI region and opinions were exchanged on the future direction of the project.
Expected Benefits
The promotion of agriculture based on appropriate policies and the improvement of agricultural incomes will contribute to maintaining sustainable economic growth in agricultural regions. We hope that the results of this study will provide useful basic information for the formulation of concrete measures to increase agricultural incomes.