A Review of Japan's Experiences in Agricultural Cooperatives

With Considering that the development of cooperatives in the agricultural sector has been seen as one of the general policies of the system and in the fifth development program of the country. Assisting from the knowledge, experience, learning and achievements of different countries in this field can be a great help to take on the basic steps to be taken on this path. This article discusses the experience of Japan in agricultural cooperatives. Japan's cooperative agriculture companies, although they have more than 100 years of experience, But the cooperative movement in the agricultural sector of Japan has grown affectedly since the implementation of the Land Reform Program, which took place after World War II. Considering the characteristics of agricultural cooperatives in Japan, it can be said that multi-purpose agricultural cooperatives (JA) and cooperative land improvement areas (LID) play the most role in this country. For reason of similarity of multi-purpose agricultural cooperatives with rural cooperative and land reform area cooperative with rural production cooperatives in Iran, these two templates have been investigated.