高知県における園芸農業の形成と地域的展開

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In Japan, farmers of the small landownership are mainly attended to their vegetable productions with diligence. Even vegetables produced at a long-distance are also provided for the supply of cities (city dwellers). During the winter season, above all, venyle-house stands side by side at the warmer villages along the Pacific coast than Tokyo and Osaka, and there lots of greens are prepared for by means of the forcing culture. As a representative of these districts, the author has investigated Kochi prefecture and the facts obtained are as follows:1) In Kochi prefecture, forcing culture of vegitables begins in the 1920s, this is a producing area of an early truck-farming in Japan. A mild winter and the long sunshine mainly brought production of forcing-vegetables on a largescale. Another different ground of this prosperity is better service at the window (route): Products and their producers in Kochi prefecture banded together to make selling to each big city. Vegetables appended on the trade-mark label of Kochi have got the credit of the market-places, by supplying of constant large quantity of greens for the marketing.2) Though forcing vegetables can maintain business relation with high price in each market, all the same, net profit per farm-house is not so much. Because it took farmer much time and cost him a great deal of money for production facilities to continue the work. In Kochi prefecture, recompense per hour of farmers is equivalent to 49% (in case of cucumber culture) as compared with the income of farmers in the suburban districts of Osaka city. It showed that, that is to say, they sell their labour cheaper than farmers close to cities.3) At the village of To-no-Hama in Yasuda-cho situated near the Cape Muroto, according to the authors searching inquiry, the farmers average acreage under cultivation is 0.7 hectare. In summer they try to cultivate paddy rice and grow greens in winter in the same cultivated field. The earnest farmers to raise vegetables have 0.7-1.0 hectare area of plowed land for their cultivation. Compared with the farmers owning 1.0-1.4 hectare area, they have unfavorable conditions with their land under cultivation: this arable land is at a long distance from their residence, more humid, and lower temperature in winter than land owned belonging to a large-scale farmer. Notwithstanding the disadvantageous condition for growing vegetables, they carry on cultivating greens with the bigger extent under crop area than the other classes of farmers. Curiously enough, farmers having over 1.0 hectare held their cultivation of greens for fear of being cursed by soil fatigue.4) Recently, it has been found, forcing culture of vegetables even in the villages of the inland area situated at the eastern district in the Kochi plain. Farmers having over 1.5 hectare land under cultivation are mostly engaged in cultivation of forcing vegetable. This is due to needing the capital for the green-house heated by boiler-steam.Farmers along the coastal villages moved first to this eastern area, and made a start on their forcing culture. It is caused that they cannot trust any longer in the plowed land, because of small and unsystematic land readjustment, scanty water for irrigation (in needy circumstances) and plenty of soil fatigues. Dwellers in these areas follow these farming techniques to try to grow the forcing culture by use of the giant-sized venyle-house, and are introducing many farming machines for their land under cultivation in these villages. They have a promising future, as it trys hard to enhance the labour to efficiency value, though net-profit of farmers per hour are lower than that of them in the suburban districts of big cities.
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高知県における園芸農業の形成と地域的展開

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