READJUSTMENT OF ARABLE LANDS IN HIROSHIMA PREFECTURE, WESTERN JAPAN
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The projects of readjustment of arable land have been carried out since 1900 in Japan. They have played an important role especially in these days for the modernization of Japanese agriculture. But the actual plan and the performance of the projects have differed according to age and region. The writer made researches on the present problems in the case of Hiroshima Prefecture, Western Japan, to find out the following facts. In Hiroshima Prefecture the readjustment on the area of 6, 203 ha, 9.2% of the total rice-field area, had been completed by 1960. The projects was promoted especially in 1909-1916 and in the irrigationpond area in the eastern part of this prefecture, in connection with of the problems of rice-field agriculture, land-owner system and land-conditions at that time. Many lands readjusted were small in area, less than 50ha, with their water sources in the ponds and streams in the valleys. It was remarkable that those lands were swampy and under bad cultivational conditions. Those lands had the common condition that water control was not well done. But the readjustment projects were not the same in quality before and after the land reform. The projects under the land-owner system (as in Shobara Basin) were aimed to raise the land rent by the change of upland fields to paddy fields as well as by the readjustment of rice-fields. And the technical points, such as farm roads and land consolidation, showed the characteristic features of land-owner system. Meanwhile, after the land reform, it was noticed that a new change for the rationalization of farm management went on, in due consideration of land and labor productivity, by the cultivators own investment with the aid of the government. On the other hand, in the regions where people rejected readjustments, we recognize that the conditions of topography and land-utilization (fields and orchards), the customs of water use (as in the case of Kozan Basin) and the absence of the common will for readjustment (as in the suburbs under intensive land-use) have made readjustment difficult. The writer will make researches on the situation of land use in the area where readjustment has not been performed, to suggest the positive ways of improvement and to grasp the problem of the readjustment of arable lands in the field of applied geography.
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