Systematization of Side-Work Farmer in the Metoropolitan Area

Abstract

In the movement of farm-house hold within the metoropolitan area, there are three types as a rule. So, the author was grouped them into the following three classes according to the tendency.(1) In and around the area of business cities, a marked tendency to disconnect from (their main occupation) farming is growing increasingly more active. This is generally consequent upon the urbanization and the decline of the will to produce in side-work farmers.(2) Intensive agriculture under the type of business enterprise by family (though in the scale, the neighboring city is studded with farms, large and small).(3) The rationalization of management and production in farm-house hold is in a fair way in appreciation of their grouping and systematization of the farm-house hold and side-work farmer.Through the farming of waterfield rice plant, the author was investigated concerning the systematization in side-work fasmers in and around the urban area. Systematization in side-work farmers flourishes remarkably in the collapsing area of two-crops a year of the paddy field and the region where dwellers are having a very lively agricultural co-operative activity. That is to say, it may be laid down as a general rule that side-work farmers are active in the area where was once main agricultural yield area as compared with the suburban area.Farm-house holds in these areas, all through the year that they had stood in need of the cheap and plentiful labour for the two-crops a year, gradually turned into the side-work farmers owing to the stop of the second crop and the simplification in culturing of waterfield rice plant. Because the employment except farming is profitable to the farm house hold. And besides, urbanization with industrialization in the Chukyo District from the 30th year of the Showa onward is remarkably growing. On account of the tendency, markets for labour are expanding every day as well as labour shortage of the construction industry. Farm-house holds are almost getting side-work farmers having a considerable land under cultivation. But they do not hold good to do farming on their own account, because waterfield is not run on a very extensive scale. As a countermeasure of the extensive management in farming and the labour investigation to the farm house hold, agricultural co-operative and the mentors of a group in the rural settlement washed for systematization in the farm house hold and side-work farmers.It does not necessarily follow that this is only in the paddy field rice plant. In the stock breeding and kitchen gardeners, the systematization also develop a tendency to increase by degrees.