The Production Conditions of the Rice Producing Flatlands That Make Up the Majority of Japan's Principal Growing Districts for the Country's Primary Crop of Rice

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to positively clarify the possibilities for continued production in the flatland agricultural regions of agricultural communities. The study is based upon the agricultural knowledge of the future successors, and takes into consideration such factors as land, capital, and labor. It is clear that Japan's core agricultural activity, wet-land rice production, is in jeopardy, not only in the mountainous regions where it is said that the geographical location and production conditions are unsuitable, but also in the flatland areas.%本稿の目的は集落営農によって平地農業地域の生産継続の可能性を土地、資本、労働に加え農業後継者の農業に対する意識をもとに実証的に解明することである。日本の基幹的な農業である水稲作は、一般に立地条件や生産条件で条件不利地と言われる中山間地域だけでなく平地地域においても厳しい状況に立たされていることが理解できる。