JA Co-operatives — Where the Profit Is
Pre-Tax Profit by Business
The multi-purpose co-operatives run five businesses and publish an income statement for each. Banking and mutual insurance earn; farm marketing and supply, living services and farm guidance do not. The second view is the same figures after the farm-guidance loss has been charged back across the segments — the ministry's own allocation, published as a line of the statement, not a calculation made here.
The Farm-Guidance Charge
Farm guidance — the advisers who work with member farmers — runs at a loss every year, and the whole of that loss is allocated to the segments that earn. This is the cross-subsidy written down by the ministry: what each business bore, by fiscal year, on a zero baseline. A bar above zero is a cost carried, not a profit.
Income Statement
Every published line of one business's income statement, on the newest fiscal year and the one before it. Amounts are thousands of yen as released; the change and the share of group revenue are calculated from them. A line the ministry does not publish for this business shows —, never a zero.
Latest values as text and table
Agricultural co-operatives — segment income statement
Latest reading, April 2023: Pre-Tax Profit 194,066,716 ¥1,000; Banking 237,891,749 ¥1,000; Farm Business −29,373,851 ¥1,000; Farm Guidance −98,736,945 ¥1,000.
| Period | Pre-tax profit, all businesses (¥1,000) | Banking (¥1,000) | Farm marketing and supply (¥1,000) | Pre-tax profit, all businesses · YoY (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 194,066,716 | 237,891,749 | −29,373,851 | −9.2 |
| 2022 | 213,795,526 | 242,493,622 | −22,577,941 | −0.6 |
| 2021 | 215,194,140 | 234,938,440 | −27,249,731 | 3.2 |
| 2020 | 208,529,384 | 228,757,101 | −30,714,181 | 5.1 |
| 2019 | 198,422,002 | 237,698,579 | −43,788,281 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 186,214,495 | 241,597,910 | −50,623,112 | −4.8 |
| 2017 | 195,634,719 | 229,189,812 | −40,305,688 | −17.9 |
| 2016 | 238,296,626 | 246,417,530 | −25,286,096 | −7.4 |
| 2015 | 257,374,888 | 257,428,707 | −18,239,280 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 239,836,397 | 265,226,507 | −28,156,702 | −9.0 |
YoY: (value[t] / value[t−12 months] − 1) × 100, from published values.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries — Survey of Agricultural Co-operatives (総合農協統計表). · Data through April 2023 · JSON · CSV · Markdown