- 著者
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永江 雅和
- 出版者
- 日本農業史学会
- 雑誌
- 農業史研究 (ISSN:13475614)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.54, pp.41-48, 2020 (Released:2021-03-25)
This paper introduces two policies that have a strong connection with socialist agriculture in Japanese
agriculture since the 1940s: food supply systems and agricultural communalization (cooperation). The food
supply system is a controlled collection system for agricultural products that was introduced to cope with food
shortages during the war and occupation of Japan. The system caused the abandonment of farming due to
the reversibility of its burden and the deterrent nature of production in inferior arable land, but the farmland
reform implemented at the same time played a complementary role in the policy and the crisis was avoided.
Also, when the price of collected rice exceeded the market price during the period of high economic growth,
it became agriculturally protective. Agricultural communalization became popular in post-war reclamation
projects mainly by people returning from mainland China after the war. The Shintone Reclamation Agricultural
Cooperative introduced in this article attracted attention due to the success of joint management by paddy dairy
farming, but the obsession with self-feeding feed became the key to expansion of management, and the joint
management was dismantled during the generational change. The conclusion of this paper is that socialist agriculture is not always seized, and it may be seized or protected depending on the economic situation at the time.