This is the first book to comprehensively analyze key issues regarding innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development in the Japanese agricultural sector. Despite the fact that innovation and entrepreneurship are vital to the development of modern Japanese agriculture, there have...

"Foreword" -- "Preface" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "The Big Ideas" -- "Share of Government Expenditure on Agriculture" -- "Definitions" -- "Defining Countries by National Income Level and Geographic Location" -- "Poverty" -- "Small...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture -- 2 By the Numbers: Economics and Management in Agriculture -- 3 Agricultural Engineers and Industrialization -- 4 Farms as Factories: The Emergence of Large-Scale Farming -- 5 The Campbell...