戦後農業・農政の展開と農業・農村観の変容

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In Japanese Agriculture, farm products, farming technology, and rural life have developed considerably since World War II. Views on farming, farm land, rural society and farmers have also changed. Traditional Japanese agriculture has shifted to modernized agriculture in a period of high economic growth. The former is characterized with more or less subsistence oriented, recycling, labor intensive and peasant life style. The latter is characterized with commercial, oriented, high input, capital intensive, and modernized life style. The farmers'view on farm land as their family property or the means of agricultural production haschanged to that of a means of profit-raising, or insurrance-like role due to increasing land price. In rural society people working outside agriculture and people coming from city are increasing. So, peasant farmer has polarized to commercial farmer and wage earners. Although agricultural successors are a very few, new comers from outside are solidly increasing, even in a small amounts. Agricultural modernization has brought about a low food self sufficiency, contaminated farm products by agricultural chemicals, and a decline of agricultural successors in contrast to the benefits of modernization. Now we Japanese are forced to fully liberalize our trade of agricultural products. It is also a chance to reconsider the roles of Japanese agricultural and rural society for ourselves.
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