千葉県下総台地東部における野菜生産地域の形成過程
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This paper aims at clarifying the formation process of agricultural systems in a vegetable growing area which is transitioned from suburban to truck farming areas. Emphasis was put on the expansion of collecting and shipping areas of agricultural cooperatives and groups. Field studies are made in 2002-2004 in Yachimata-shi, Tomisato-shi, Sanbu-machi and Shibayama-machi, located on the low upland of Shimousa in northern Chiba Prefecture some 50-60km to the east of Tokyo and just south of Narita International Airport.Just after World War II, the major products there were wheat and other grains, together with peanuts and satoimo (a kind of taro), and vegetable growing was only a little except for home consumption. Vegetables for sale were individually treated through local jobbers.As the urban market grew, vegetable production increased accordingly. In Yachimata-shi, Tomisato-shi and Sanbu-machi, the farmers concerned optionally organizad shipping groups by settlement, and vegetable began to be sold through these groups. In 1965, fourty-one shipping groups were active altogether. Soon later, these groups began to decrease in number. Instead, Shibayama-machi, farmers organized an agricultural cooperative (Nlaruasa-engei Agricultural Cooperative), and vegetables grown by them began to be sold through this agricultural cooperative.In and since the 1970s, vegetable production as a whole saw and has seen great increases. In this region, full-time farmers endeavored to grow watermelon, carrot and tomato, and these were sold through increased agricultural cooperatives with a function of shipping. Thereafter, agricultural cooperatives strengthened their sales systems by constructing many facilities for vegetable collection and shipment using the government subsidy.Farmers mainly growing watermelon, carrot and tomato began to sell these as a sales policy under the guidance of agricultural cooperatives, and they received financial support from the national and prefectural governments to construct vinyl greenhouses. In and after the 1970s, however, farmers growing crops other than watermelon, carrot and tomato continued to ship crops to local jobbers and local markets, together with newly developing daily-commodity cooperatives.
- 2006-07-31