高齢農家の存在形態とその動態 : 鹿児島県大浦町を事例として

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The existence of the too many aged farmers is one of the most important problems to which Japan must be confronted in the near future. Especially, in such a rural district as Kagoshima Prefecture, this is a matter of urgent necessity to be resolved as early as possible. Therefore, in this paper, the actual conditions of the aged farmers dwelling in Oura-cho were investigated as a case study. One hundred and twenty-five households having the aged persons 60 years old and older as the related members were selected ; about whom some hearing surveys were carried out. One third of the aged farmers who were 60 years old and older in 1975 were noted to have been died during these ten years, while the survivors have been reduced to be weakened with the lapse of the withering years. Consequently, in the ten years, disappearace of about 20% of the households with aged members was brought forth in Oura-cho. On the other hand, only 20% of the successors returned home to take care of their parents. Moreover, among them there were not a few temporary-staying and single young people who have escaped from the struggling urban lives. The considerable decreasings in the area of the cultivated land or in the agricultural products, were mainly due to such a big change taken place in the aged members and their households in this decade.
鹿児島大学の論文
1987-03-16