生産者部会における協同と協働の展望

Today's agricultural cooperatives management is tending to be led by executives and employees. It has produced many unconsous members in the organic whole system of an owner, a user, and a management person. In such a situation, the sectional meeting has maintained members' high concentration power as a business management organization decentralized within agricultural cooperatives. However, while the heterogeneity inside members is deepened, independence and autonomy in sectional meetings tend to fall. This paper takes up the apple sectional meeting in Kita Shishu Miyuki Agricultural Cooperative, and co-operation among members and collaboration betwween members and employees are considered, based on social capital theory. There were two apple sectional meetings, the initiative type of employees and the initiative type of sectional meeting officers, in a case agriculturral cooperative, and the concentration power of the latter was high. Based on the difference, we pointed out as following. In order to reconstruct co-operation among members, it is necessary to create a network from the activity which focused on the specific field, or nearness and to lead to positive feedback which encourages mutual co-oepration by making selfsacrifice of an officer into driving force. Moreover, in order to build collaboration between a sectional meeting member and an employee, the latter as the connecting person between the market and the members has to try hard continuously so that development of co-operation activity can match development of farm management. The co-operation as a horizontal network and the collaboration as a vertical network are built, and the soul of mutual support must be penetrated in these networks. Then, the member' social capital as resources will become abundant, and sectional meetings will develop stably.