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abstract: 'Traditional agricultural practice in the Saga plain was formerly a
combination of paddy rice, which was the main crop, and wheat/barley,
which was the secondary crop. However, when production adjustments to
paddy rice started in the 1970s, the original agricultural practice was
changed to a combination of paddy rice and a rotating crop of soybeans
along with a secondary crop of wheat/barley. Further, since the 1970s,
issues such as competition between agricultural land use and urban land
use, income disparity between agricultural and non-agricultural
employment, and a shortage of farming successors became serious, which
in turn caused great difficulty in sustaining agriculture and farmland.
Under such circumstances, farmers in the Saga plain started to develop
rural community-based farming as a strategy to sustain agriculture and
farmland, as well as to manage the harvesting and drying process of
rice, wheat/barley, and soybean collaboratively. Consequently, the block
rotation system of cultivating paddy rice and soybeans together with
shared use of rice planting and harvesting machines progressed and
agriculture and farmland that combined rice, wheat/barley, and soybeans
in the region tended to survive. On the other hand, due to a lack of
leadership, community cohesion, and full-time farmers, some rural
community-based farms began to be converted into agricultural
corporations as another strategy. This strategy was encouraged by a new
national agricultural policy. There were also farmers who did not
participate in rural community-based farming, and many of them were
full-time farmers who functioned as certified farmers. Such full-time
farmers have expanded the scale of managing arable land by purchasing
and leasing farmland (paddy field) from part-time farmers, both inside
and outside the region, with the intention of securing successors to
carry on agriculture. Thus, large-scale rice farmers gradually
amalgamated the paddy fields of part-time farmers and expanded the scale
of agricultural management. There were two types of large-scale
farmer-farmers maintaining relationships with rural community-based
farming and agricultural cooperatives such as JA, and independent
farmers who had a tendency to become agricultural corporations. The
decision to become an agricultural corporation was largely influenced by
several key factors including the existence of a successor to continue
farming, managerial skills of business operators, and the level of the
family workforce of farmers. In other words, as a result of securing
successors, large-scale rice farmers could start businesses such as
drying preparation facilities, and build their own sales networks.
Further, in order to control substantial production costs, the family
workforce was used for production, processing, clerical work, and sales
promotions. As a result, agriculture in the Saga plain was supported by
rural community-based farming, independent large-scale paddy farmers,
and large-scale paddy farmers incorporated into agricultural
organizations, and these divisions of the management strategy were based
on the degree of agricultural labor and community bonding forces. A
series of distinctive strategies largely contributed to the survival and
development of agriculture and farmland in the Saga plain.'
affiliation: 'Kikuchi, T (Corresponding Author), Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Grad Sch
Urban Environm Sci, Hachioji, Tokyo 1920397, Japan.
Kikuchi, Toshio, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Grad Sch Urban Environm Sci, Hachioji,
Tokyo 1920397, Japan.
Tabayashi, Akira, Univ Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058572, Japan.'
author: Kikuchi, Toshio and Tabayashi, Akira
author_list:
- family: Kikuchi
given: Toshio
- family: Tabayashi
given: Akira
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.5026/jgeography.128.209
eissn: 1884-0884
files: []
issn: 0022-135X
journal: JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY-CHIGAKU ZASSHI
keywords: 'paddy farming; community-based farming; agricultural corporation;
large-scale rice farm; Saga Plain'
language: Japanese
number: 2, SI
number-of-cited-references: '20'
pages: 209-233
papis_id: 2bad51a8cb65668fb6572589a1897424
ref: Kikuchi2019strategiessustaining
times-cited: '3'
title: Strategies for Sustaining and Developing Paddy Farming in the Saga Plain, Southwestern
Japan
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000471604500005
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '3'
volume: '128'
web-of-science-categories: Geography, Physical
year: '2019'