Present and hereafter of the large-scale cabbage farming in east Mikawa area of Aichi prefecture [Japan]
1999
Yanagisawa, J. (Aichi-ken. Agricultural Research Center, Nagakute (Japan))
In order to establish the large-scale cabbage farming, questionnaire survey was carried out to leading cabbage farms in East Mikawa area of Aichi Prefecture. Results are as follows; 1. Rented lands occupied almost 40% of upland fields used for cabbage farming. 2. Succeeding crops as spring or summer cropping were cultivated after cabbage. They were mainly melon in plastic tunnel, sweet corn and tobacco. 3. Labor power to cabbage farming was mainly by family, but there were 14% of farms used the temporary workers. 4. Almost 70% of farms had an automatic transplanter for plug seedlings but less than 20% farms had an implement carrier for vegetable cultivation. 5. Almost 40% of farms intended to expand the scale of cabbage fields to about 5ha. And they expected to get more than 25 million yen from the cabbage gross income. Larger scale farms expected the expansion sincerely. 6. To expand the farm size, the choice of succeeding crops and its scale were important factors for the cabbage farming. Melon in plastic tunnel had a tendency to down scale, sweet corn to up, tobacco to unchangeable. 7. The farms who expected the expansion of the farm scale requested harder the public mediation systems to get rented land and employee easily than the others
Show more [+] Less [-]AGROVOC Keywords
Bibliographic information
This bibliographic record has been provided by Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Information Technology Center