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The purpose of this chapter is to quantitatively analyze the determinants of farm diversification based on the results of a questionnaire survey of community-based farming corporations in Akita, Fukui, and Shimane prefectures. First, the relationships between business departments are clarified by cross tabulation. Next, in order to clarify the determinants of farm diversification and forage rice production, we use logistic regression analysis based on the explanatory variables of farm resources, environmentally friendly agriculture, management objectives, and manager’s risk attitude. The cross tabulation shows that diversification has progressed rapidly within the last 10 years, agricultural processing has been functioning as a key to diversification, and the smaller the managed cultivated land area, the more likely the direct sales strategy is to be selected. The estimation results show that location, employees, middle managers, environmentally friendly agriculture, regional contribution orientation, and the manager’s risk attitude are related to diversification choices. Location, managed cultivated land area, and successors are related to forage rice production choices. Human resources, managed cultivated land area, the practice of environmentally friendly agriculture, and risk hedging are important elements of the diversification choices of community-based farming corporations.
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This work is the result of new models and estimates performed using the data from Inoue (2019) and adding a new case analysis. This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP19H03062, JP18K05866, and JP15H04555.
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Inoue, N. (2020). Diversification Choices for Community-Based Farming Corporations: Focusing on Farm Resources. In: Yasunaga, N., Inoue, N. (eds) Farm and Rural Community Management in Less Favored Areas. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 44. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7352-1_6
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