URBANIZATION AND INCREASE IN NUMBER OR PERCENTAGE OF PART-TIME FARM HOUSEHOLDS IN THE VICINITIES OF CITIES
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Japan is the most westernized country in Asia and her economic structure seems to place her colser to Europe or the United States than to any one of her neighbours. But her agriculture shows many differences and peculiarities as compared with that of any European country or the United States. One of the remarkable peculiarities is the small average scale of farming operation by one farm household. Some farmers or some members of some farm households engage in other jobs than their household farming. At first, the writer compars the rate of such part-time farmers to the total farmers or the rate of part-time farm households to the total farm households in Japan with those of similar kinds of farms or farmers in the United States, Germany, England and Wales, and India and obtains the following conclusions: 1. Comparing the United States and the Western Germany before 1930 with Japan in 1960, all of which have similer percentages of workers engaging in the secondary and tertiary industries, Japan has the highest percentage of part-time farm households to the total farm households. But differences among them are not so great. The percentage of part-time farm households to the total farm households in India is much higher than that in Japan in 1950. These facts seem to come from differences in scales of avarage farming operations. 2. As an industrial structure of a country is more and more urbanized and farm land is converted into land of urban uses, the rate of part-time farms, farmers, or farm households increases. The increase is supported or promoted by such economic instabilities as panic, war, potential unemployment etc. 3. In accordance with economic growth, income of part-time farms, farmers or farm households in-crease more quickly than full-time farms, farmers or farmhouseholds and number in hobby farms increases. In the second place, the writer examines increase in the rate of part-time farm households and their change in characterics in various areas in Japan and points out that the general trend mentioned above is found also in Japan. Almost the same trend is expected in the process of urbanization of rural Asia in near future.
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