In the context of agricultural globalization, many national governments have instituted policies, such as cooperative farming, to help farmers improve their profitability, competitiveness, and the sustainability of their ag-ricultural practices. This study focused on the Multi-Product Management Stabilization Plan developed in Japan in 2006, which aimed to adapt the agricultural practices in the country to globalization by focusing on cooperative farming, and assessed its effectiveness for developing and incorporating cooperative farming in the Tōhoku region in the 2000s. The results suggest that regional and prefectural agents experienced significant difficulties when at-tempting to develop cooperative farming. Although New Institutional Economics’ theories suggest that these poli-cies reflect the norms for developing agriculture more profitably and competitively, Japanese farmers did not regard the policies as relevant, practical, or sustainable, and they obstructed them.%在农业全球化的背景下，许多国家的政府制定了一些诸如农业合作的政策以帮助农民提高自己的盈利能力并提高区域农业发展的可持续性。本文研究了日本于2006年制定的多产品经营稳定计划及其影响，该计划旨在通过农业合作，提高农业生产单元的规模等以使得农业生产与全球化相适应。对该政策有效性的评估结果表明，地区和县代理商试图发展农业合作时存在明显的困难。虽然新制度经济学理论认为，这些政策会使得发展农业更有利可图、更有竞争力，但日本农民并不认为该政策是实用的或可持续的，相反甚至还阻碍了农业的发展。
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