投稿の詳細: 農家は偉大だ　How great the famers are!

最近の信濃毎日新聞に、有機野菜の
産地直送に取り組む生産者の記事が
出ていた。産直なら1本250円で
売れる有機野菜のダイコンが
通常のルートでは店頭価格
114円、農家の手取り41円
となり、差額は、農協、卸、
スーパーなどの流通コスト
だという。

理不尽ともいえる手取り価格
だと思う。

別の見方をすれば生産者がいかに
多くの中間業種の生活を支えているかという
ことでもある。その他に、農機具、農薬、
資材、種苗の各メーカーに、鉱工業の
廃棄物(硫化物等)まで引き受け、
更に農政関係者と…。

家康時代からの「生かさぬように、
殺さぬように」の扱いに甘んじながら（？）
も農家は偉大だ。更に更に、田園風景や
自然環境の維持の役目も負っているのだ!

I have read an article in the local
paper, Shinano-Mainichi Shinbun, recently
about a farmer who is trying to
expand the direct sales of his organic
vegetables. An organic radish can be sold
through hit route at 250 yen per piece
but the same is sold off at 41 yen per
piece if it was sold through conventional
route namely via JA, wholeseller and
the retailer. The difference is absorbed
by these distribution system.

The farmer's price is unreasonably
cheap, I think.

But from the other point of view, it means
that the agriculture supports so many people
inbetween the producers and the consumers.
Besides there are other makers as agricultural
equipments, chemicals and fertilizers, materials,
seeds and seedlings, and it accepts industrial wastes
(sulfides), and the government people in charge of
agriculture.

The farmers have been remained in 'do not
kill them or do not let them live' situation
since Ieyasu (the first shogun of Edo) Era.
But how great the farmers have been.
In addition, the farmers have kept the
sound rural scenary and helped sustain
the nature and the environment for the people!