弓ヶ浜半島における蔬菜の輸送園芸

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  • Truck Garden Farming in the Yumi-ga-hama Peninsula, Tottori Prefecture
  • キュウガハマ ハントウ ニ オケル ソサイ ノ ユソウ エンゲイ
  • ユミガハマ ハントウ ニ オケル ソサイ ノ ユソウ エンゲイ

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Yumi-ga-hama, which is thought to have been formed by an upheaval of sea-deposited layers, is covered with sand. Farming in this area has become stabilized since irrigation water-courses were constructed along the length of the peninsula about 200 years ago, and towns and villages have increased in number. The peninsula had been one of the most intensive raw cotton-growing districts in Japan. Later when Japan exported all the silk goods to U.S.A. and other countries, mulberry trees were planted throughout on the peninsula. But, for the last ten years truck farming has been prosperous and vegetables are sent on a large scale to cities as far as 330-430 kilometers.<br>One reason why the farmers singled truck farming out of many other types of farm-work is that this area has only 0.54 hectares of arable land per farm-house. This also explains the fact that the breeding of pigs and domestic fowl (but not cattle) is popular among the farmers here.<br>Garden products are forwarded by a partnership combine through the agricultural cooperation. In some villages where the cooperation finds difficulty to balance accounts, and where farmers prefer to deal products for themselves and have a contact with neighbouring cities, however, truck garden farming is not extensively carried on. As the quantity of dealings with large cities increases, the agricultural cooperation is engaged not merely in selling and transporting products, but also in encouraging each farmer to promote and control the agricultural products. To do this, the agricultural cooperation need a strong controlling power over the farm-houses of villages, as well as a good financial ground. Generally in Japan, a marked tendency observed lately is over-production of agricultural products, especially greens. So the keen competition was seen in the market-places of large cities between garden products transported from each producing-center. Welsh onions (Allium fistulosum), typical among other vegetables sent from the Yumi-ga-hama peninsula, are sold at a high price in the great market-place of Osaka City. This is due to the fact that in the Yumi-ga-hama peninsula, where it is hotter in summer, and coolness of autumn comes earlier, Welsh onions grow up and ripen earlier than in the other districts.

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  • 人文地理

    人文地理 13 (3), 220-241,281, 1961

    一般社団法人 人文地理学会

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