| Course title | |||||
| 農業経営学 [Farm management] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 2 | ||
| Department | Year | 2～ | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 01AN2502 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 千年 篤, 草処 基 [CHITOSE Atsushi, KUSADOKORO Motoi] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
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The goal of this course is to understand principal issues related to farm management and basic tools for analysis of farm management. Farm management is an organization that is managed and run for agricultural production in accordance with a managerial agent’s will. Previously, the main agent of farm management is a family-managed farm; however, in recent years farm management agents have become diversified with increases in the number of agricultural production firms or of community-based farming organizations. Moreover, a farm manager has increasing opportunities to work with non-agricultural enterprises in the wake of promotion of rokuji-sangyoka --agricultural business diversification and integration related to manufacturing and commercial sectors― or collaboration of agricultural, commercial and manufacturing sectors. With these recent trends in mind, we discuss basic characteristics of farm management invariant regardless of farm management types as well as differences in producer management objective and behavior by types. |
| Expected Learning |
| Students are expected to learn basic issues regarding farm management and obtain basic analytical tools by exposing themselves to various aspects presented through a series of lectures. |
| Course schedule |
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The course is planned to proceed with the following: 1. Oct. 3/ Guidance, goals and schedule of the course, nature of farm management 2. Oct. 10/ Rational behavior of agricultural producer, farm practices and farming systems: fundamental principles and history 3. Oct. 17/ Farm management types: family-managed farm, corporate farm, collective farm 4. Oct. 24/ Farm economy: total revenue, production cost, profit 5. Oct. 31/ Production cost by products 6. Nov. 7/ Land utilization/allocation: von Thunen’s “The Isolated State” 7. Nov. 14/ Optimum choice of products: Linear programming (LP) 8. Nov. 21/ Farm accounting (1) 9. Nov. 28/ Farm accounting (2) 10. Dec. 5/ Rational behavior of corporate farm (1) 11. Dec. 12/ Rational behavior of corporate farm (2), economies of scale, division of labor, specialization 12. Dec. 19/ Rational behavior of family-managed farm (1): agricultural household model 13. Jan. 9/ Rational behavior of family-managed farm (2): agricultural household model, economies of scope, farm diversification 14. Jan. 16/ Present situations of farm management and surrounding it: agricultural terms of trade and policies, policies, Diversity in farm management forms 15. Jan. 23/ Final examination |
| Prerequisites |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| No specific textbook is used. |
| References |
| References will be announced in class. |
| Assessment/Grading |
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Grades will be given with the following weights: Class attendance/In-class test (0-5%), Assignment (30-35%), Final Examination (60-70%) |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Course keywords |
| Technology, Management, Type of farm management, Market, Term of trade, Profit maximization, Income maximization |
| Office hours |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 3/21/2018 7:39:43 PM |