統制経済期における埼玉県青果物振売り人の分布・行動圏と業者的性格

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The writer investigated the distribution, peddling areas and business characters of the vegetable and fruit peddlers in Saitama Prefecture during the easy stage of the controlled economy period. The results are as follows. 1. The distribution of the peddlers can be roughly classified into the northern Saitama group, the central Saitama group and southern Saitama group. Each group has a common basis of origin which is the formation of the production area markets as social condition and distribution of the natural levee zones natural ones. 2. The peddling areas of the peddlers can be classified into the following three groups: A) Northern Saitama group: peddling in Gunma and Tochigi Prefectures. B) Central Saitama group: peddling mainly in their own district, Kita-Saitama county. C) Southern Saitama group: peddling mostly in the city of Tokyo. 3. The business characters of the peddlers can be summarized according to the above-mentioned three groups as follows: A) Generally, the peddling in this area was run by petty farmers as a side line during the farmers' leisure season. B) The peddling in this area was run by relatively large-scale farmers as a seasonal business dealing mainly in special agricultural products. C) The peddling in this area consisted of two business styles in two areas. The former peddlers along Takasaki line ran it on a large scale. The combination of peddling in the local city and The city of Tokyo was characteristic of their business style. The latter peddlers in the Naka basin's rural districts, who were petty farmers worked mainly in the city of Tokyo.