静岡県引佐郡下のみかん栽培
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概要
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The Japanese agriculture reached a new stage in 1955. Since 1961, under the fundamental agricultural policy, it has marked a characteristic development in every reglon.The mandarin orange orchards in Inasa “Gun” are mainly found in Mikkabi town. The research on Inasa “Gun”, therefore, might be concentrated on a careful examination of the farming conditions in Mikkabi. In 1965 the mandarin orange orchards in Inasa covered an area of 1, 850 hectares, which amounts to 12.5% of the total area of Shizuoka Prefecture. This fact shows that Inasa “Gun, ” like Ihara, Shida, or Abe, is one of the centers of mandarin orange cultivation in the western part of Shizuoka prefecture.One of the characteristics of mandarin orange cultivation in Inasa is concentration of orchard areas. Another is a great number of young plant orchards covering 40% of the whole. Thirdly, Inasa has a lesser number of old plant orchards than any other distrct in Shizuoka prefecture. Besides, these old plant orchards, distributed among gardens or small fields around farmhouses, are mostly of small size. The fourth is the rapid increase in the total area of orchards since 1955. Finally, in spite of its early introduction, the mandarin orange cultivation of this area is far behind that of the other areas, which has developed to commercial agriculture much more rapidly.The most important point in question is that this district has attained a remarkable enlagement of the cultivated area, despite of the current shortage of farm labor as well as the accelerating urbanization in todays Japan. About sixty years ago mandarin orange cultivation was not regarded as a main object of agriculture because at that time cultivaters were mostly engaged in other kinds of production as well. Statistic annuals of Shizuoka prefecture and field reseaches on this region have proved that farmers in those days pursued the cultivation of pyrethrums, rushes or cotton, the household industry of spinning and the production of Japanese matting. The later development of capitalistic economy in this country, however, caused great depreciation of pyrethrums and cotton. Moreover, the economic changes in the early decade of Showa era led to the farmers concentration upon agriculture than upon any other.Thus the remakable increase of orchard area which characterizes Inasa “Gun” is due to the above mentioned economic trends in recent Japan.
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