Today's Situation of the Rice-crop Farming and the Transition of Rural Community

Research Project

Project/Area Number	13610191
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research Institution	Tohoku University
Principal Investigator	KOBAYASHI Kazuho Tohoku University, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Associate Professor, 大学院・情報科学研究科, 助教授 (20150253)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	TOKUGAWA Naohito Tohoku University, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Associate Professor, 大学院・情報科学研究科, 助教授 (10227572) HOSOYA Takashi Iwate Prefectural University, Faculty of Policy Studies, Professor, 総合政策学部, 教授 (10005754)
Project Period (FY)	2001 – 2002
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000) Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000) Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Keywords	wet-rice production / multiple agriculture / family farm / rural community / farmer's consciousness
Research Abstract	In this study,we tried to illuminate how the rural community is influenced by the transition of the rice production in Japan. Rapid economic growth brought about the mechanization in rice cultivation and the increase to combine agriculture with non-farm work. We have made analyses of the tendency of rice production and rice farmer's attitude in the three areas of the wet-rice production, that is Tohoku, Hokkaido and Okinawa. In Shonai of the Tohoku district, the multiple operations and women's roles in it rise in importance. In the Hokkaido district, on the other hand, the multiple agriculture is in difficulties. In Ishigaki of the Okinawa prefecture, the stock farming and tabacco cultivation increase. Today's agricultural production in Japan diversifies in wet-rice production, stock farming, green vegitable production and so on. Increasing of the multiple operation is influences family farm and farmer's consciousness. As a result, the rural community changes gradually from the organization of homogeneous farmers into the society of varied farmhouses.