Characteristics of farming organizations and the regulations of cooperative operating facilities: A case of carry-in scheduling adjustment activities for efficient operation of cooperative rice drying and processing plant
1996
Aizaki, H. (Tottori Univ. (Japan)) | Nagaki, M.
Many farmers tend to carry-in harvested paddy rice to Drying and Processing Plant (CE Country Elevator) at certain days of an operating period. Therefore, carry-in time adjustment is one of the important issues fro the efficient operation of CE. From a view of efficient operation, constant carry-in is desirable in order to diminish an operating cost. However, the adjustments of carry-in volume, varieties, and period among farmers bear the adjustment cost that is generated by economic conflicts between member farmers. An optimal operation level is realized by which the sum of the operation cost and the adjustment cost isminimized. Next, this paper discussed the adjustment methods based upon the various transaction activities between farms and between farm and farming organizations in the areas, from market oriented transactions to non-marketable transactions. Consequently, it is shown that the adjustment activities in a type of non-marketable transaction within organizations is an effective method of reducing the adjustment cost. However, the farming organizations do not merely mean conventional neighborhood community organizations. It is rather an organization based on the mutant dependent relations of the farmers who behave as an economic rational individual. Such cooperated dependent relations formed various versatile and continuous non-marketable transactions within organizations
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