Improving the efficiency of machinery utilization is crucial in modern arable farming. As farms expand in scale, they need more machines, and more complex forms of organization are required to manage the appropriate and efficient utilization of an increasing number of machinery. In this study, we investigated relatively large‐scale rice farms in Japan and assessed the relationship between the types of organization and farm attributes, such as farmland conditions and human resources. While adjusting this effect with propensity scores, we then estimated how the type of organization affects the number of major machines and machine workdays. When compared on a same‐scale, same condition basis, family farms were the most sparing in the use of machinery, and even the farmland concentration effect, achieved by community farms, could not compensate for this difference. Our findings also indicated that nonfamily farms achieved high levels of machinery utilization with a greater operational scale (L23, M11, Q12).

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日本稻米农场的机械利用和管理组织：单户，多户和社区农场的比较

提高机械利用率的效率在现代耕作中至关重要。随着农场规模的扩大，他们需要更多的机器，并且需要更复杂的组织形式来管理对越来越多的机器的适当而有效的利用。在这项研究中，我们调查了日本规模相对较大的水稻农场，并评估了组织类型与农场属性（例如农田条件和人力资源）之间的关系。在通过倾向得分调整这种影响的同时，我们估计了组织的类型如何影响主要机器和机器工作日的数量。在相同规模，相同条件的基础上进行比较时，家庭农场在使用机械方面最节省，甚至社区农场实现的农田集中效应，无法弥补这一差异。我们的发现还表明，非家庭农场的机械利用率较高，并且具有较大的经营规模（L23，M11，Q12）。