投稿の詳細: 成長産業？　A growing industry?

先日の講演で一橋大学の先生が言っていたこと。
全国に農産物の直売所は13000箇所ほどあり、
総売上は1兆円を超え、しかも毎年10%以上の
成長率である、と。産直は驚異の成長産業なのだそうだ。
そしてその中心には女性達がいると。

これからの農業の進むべきは、直売に加工とレストラン、
それに集落営農であるとも指摘していた。
生産から消費者に届けるまでを農家が行う
6次産業化だと。そうして農家は自分の頭で
考えないといけないと。

成功事例の中には、前向きに
突き進むロコモーティブ的な人の存在がある。
危機感を持ち、自分（達）で切り開いてきたという。

何年も言われて来たことでそれほど目新しい
話ではなかったが…。

女性を農作業から解放せよ（農作業は機械と従業員に任せ）、
農家の女性よ立ち上がれ（そしてビジネスを興せ）、
ということを言いたかったのかな？

What the professor from the famous Hitotsubashi
University at the lecture the other days said;
there are over 13000 farmers’ market throughout
Japan and its sales is over 10 billion Yen with the
annual growth of over 10%. The farmers’ market is
the fast growing business in Japan and the
women play the main roles in it.

He pointed out that farmers should go into
the processing and restaurant business where
they can deliver their own products to the final
consumers directly as well as farmers’ market.
One of the forms is the group or community farming.
He also said that the farmers
should think what to do by themselves.

There are always people as locomotive in each
success example who have noticed the problems by facing
the extension of local agriculture or community.

These things have been told for years and it is not
a new warning at all but …

He might want to say to free women from farming
(by leaving it with their husbands, machines and employees) and
let them involve in the business by themselves to
revitalize the agriculture?