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1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Regional systematic research on the relationships between racehorse stables and sustainable farming.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 08458024
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Human geography
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

SAITO Isao  University of Tsukuba, Institute of Geoscience, Professor, 地球科学系, 教授 (90006586)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MASUI Yoshio  Tokyo Agricultural University, Faculy of Agricuture, Associate Professor, 農学部, 助教授 (80078196)
SUYAMA Satoshi  University of Tsukuba, Institute of Geoscience, Assistant Professor, 地球科学系, 講師 (10282302)
MIRIMOTO Takehiro  University of Tsukuba, Institute of Geoscience, Assistant Professor, 地球科学系, 講師 (20282303)
SASAKI Hiroshi  University ot Tsukuba, Institute of Geoscience, Professor, 地球科学系, 教授 (70062817)
TABAYASHI Akira  University of Tsukuba, Institute of Geoscience, Professor, 地球科学系, 教授 (70092525)
Project Period (FY) 1996 – 1997
Keywordsracehorse stables / sustainable farming / suburban agriculture / rice farming / intensive vegetable farming / regional systematic approach / manure marketing / regional resource circulation system
Research Abstract

Investigators of this research examined the regional relationships between racehorse stables and sustainable ways of farming in vegetable production and rice cultivation.
The results confirmed the close relationships between racehorse stables and intensive vegetable farms in Tokyo Metropolitan Area.
Since the 1970s, rapid urbanization forced a racehorse training center of the Japan Racing Association and many private racehorse stables to move from the inner suburban area to the outer one. The establishment of Miho Training Center (MTC) promoted many stables developed in Ibaraki Prefecture.
The MTC and racehorse stables produce large amount of manure. Manure, processed compost, and "mush-soil" are marketed to horticultural farms in the inner suburban area of Tokyo. These organic fertilizers have been essential to maintain horticulture sustainably in this area. Saito and Morimoto reported that vegetable growers and pear growers in Chiba prefecture buy manure or compost and put them in their field to keep soil productive.
According to Tabayashi, medium-or small-sized stud farms are more sustainable than large-scale industrialized stud farms in the Hidaka Region, the leading area in racehorse farming in Japan. Masui reported that the regional resource-manure and straws-circulation systems which included rice farms, racehorse farms, and vegetable farms.
Saito, Morimoto, and Tabayashi presented their results in the IGU commission on the sustanability of rural systems in Armidale, Australia.

  • Research Products

    (14 results)

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All Publications (14 results)

  • [Publications] 斎藤 功: "尾崎,乕四郎と南房総の地域研究" 新地理. 44. 1-9 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 斎藤 功: "明治初期,福島盆地の地域性" 地域調査報告. 19. 1-10 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 田林 明: "北海道日高地方における軽種馬生産地域の構造" 人文地理学研究. 22. 79-98 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Tabayashi, A.: "Rural Communities:An Analysis of the Hidaka Region" Proceedings of IGU Commission on Sustainable Rural Systems,1997 in Armid-ale,Australia. 1-9 (1998)

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  • [Publications] 佐々木 博: "イメージが創った観光地清里高原" 人文地理学研究. 22. 27-57 (1998)

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  • [Publications] 斎藤 功: "山のくらし(ふるさとのくらし 日本のまちとむら1)" 小峰書店, 55 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 増井 好男: "軽種馬生産費調査報告書" 日本中央競馬会, (1997)

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  • [Publications] Isao SAITO: "Torashiro Ozaki and his regional geography of the Boso Peninsula." New Geography. 44. 1-9 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Isao SAITO: "The regionality of Fukushima Basin in the early Miji era." Area Research Papers. 19. 1-10 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Akira TABAYASHI: "Regional structure of race horse breeding in the Hidaka Region." Tsukuba Studies in Human Geography. 22. 79-98 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Akira TABAYASHI: "Rural communities : an analysis of the Hidaka Region." Proceedings of IGU commission on sustainable rural systems 1997 in Armidale, Australia. 1-9 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Hiroshi SASAKI: Tsukuba Studies in Human Geography. 22. 22-57 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Isao SAITO: Life in mountain village. Komine Shoten, 55 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Yoshio MASUI: Research report on the producing cost of racehorses.The Japan Racing Association, (1997)

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Published: 1999-03-16  

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