Effect of Machinaoshi on work of operators engaging in agricultural organization for farm work contract of paddy fields in hilly and mountainous areas: Case study on the Otoyo Yutori Farm [Japan]
2005
Hosokawa, M. (National Agricultural Research Center for Western Region, Fukuyama, Hiroshima (Japan)) | Inooku, K. | Inoue, H. | Uchida, H.
Paddy fields in hilly and mountainous areas play multi-functional roles such as national land preservation and water resource fostering, through agricultural production activities. However, abandonment of cultivation in these areas has been increasing because of depopulation, aging and severe working conditions. Machinaoshi, the suitable type of farmland consolidation in hilly and mountainous areas, is effective to improve working conditions. Organizations of farm work contract are expected as core players of agriculture to prevent abandonment of cultivation. In hilly and mountainous areas, authors research the present status of work of operators who are engaging in the semipublic corporation for farm work contract of paddy fields, and study the effect of Machinaoshi on work of operators. Our conclusions are as follows: (1) Most of commissioning farmland lots are small in area and disperse in the distance; (2) Loading-and-unloading time and transportation time of the farm machinery make operators' working time increase; (3) Rice transplanting time per 10a using the riding type rice transplanter is shorter at the large farmland lot than at the small farmland lot; (4) To cross the levee by the riding type rice transplanter is dangerous, and entails the physical burden upon operators, (5) Machinaoshi improves the working efficiency, eliminates the levee crossing, and as a result, operators' working time and conditions are improved.
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