2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study on the Deployment of Regional Agricultural Products from the Viewpoint of Food System
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17580193
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Agro-economics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
ONO Naotatsu Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Institute of Symbiotic Science and Technology, Professor (30015094)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NOMIYAMA Toshio Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Institute of Symbiotic Science and Technology, Associate Professor (20242240)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Keywords | Regional Products / Sugar Cane / Sugar Beet / Leaf Tobacco / Hop / Konyak / Cocoon / Domestic Production |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to clarify the development of regional agricultural products from the viewpoint of food system. We picked up 6 farm products as objects, namely sugar cane, sugar beet, tobacco, Hop, konyaku, and cocoon. These products are located in concentration of region. For example, in case of sugar cane, the area of production is Okinawa and Kagoshima prefecture, and sugar beet is in Hokkaido and so on. The conclusions are as follows: the first one is that these products are very important products for farm household, regional agriculture and regional economy with the various functions. The second one is that these products have maintained the role of labor employment and income earning as same as previous situation. For the development of these products in the future, it can be concluded that these products are maintaining as the first place in the domestic production and marketing in Japan. In addition, we had investigated the following areas which are Honnbetsu town of Hokkaido, Ninohe city and Toono city of Iwate prefecture, Karumai town of Iwate prefecture, Showa village of Gunma prefecture, Oyama city of Tochigi prefecture, Asagiri town of Kumamoto prefecture, Tanegashima of Kagoshima prefecture. The above mentioned areas are called as remote area and disadvantage condition of soil in Japan.
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