Positive study on the occurrence mechanism of agricultural land problem in paddy field area in Hokkaido [Japan]
1996
Higashiyama, K. (Akita Prefectural Coll. of Agriculture, Ohgata (Japan))
In this paper, The Author analyzed tenant rights mobility in paddy field area in Hokkaido at mainly the second half 1980's from the point of view that agricultural land problem means a structural problem of regional agriculture. In recent years, the basic characteristics of tenant rights mobility in paddy field area in Hokkaido, are an increase in tenancy contracts and falling agricultural land prices. But, the forms of tenant rights mobility in paddy field area in Hokkaido show clear regional differences. That is, in the older developed paddy field area in Hokkaido, the forms of tenant rights mobility show advanced tenancy contracts. But to the contrary, in the newly developed paddy field area in Hokkaido, the forms of tenant rights mobility are ruled by selling farmland. This paper has analyzed factors accounting for regional differences in tenant rights mobility by investigating typical paddy field area in Hokkaido. We conclude that the characteristics of tenant rights mobility in regional areas are determined by production structure of regional agriculture. At the same time, The Author conclude that a means to resolve agricultural land problem is different among regional agricultures. This paper pointed out the clarification of regional characteristics of tenant rights mobility is useful on the finding ways to resolve agricultural land problems
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