Abstract
This paper outlines how agricultural subsidies were utilized after a massive natural disaster, using the case of the eruption of Mt. Unzen. Most of the farmers who took advantage of the ashfall control subsidy program offereed immediately after the disaster installed greenhouses at a 95% subsidy rate. They were farmers who resumed farming operations relatively early after the disaster. For those farmers whose homes and land were both swept away or burned down by the disaster, it took longer to return to farming, or they found it difficult to meet the requirement to receive the subsidies, and many of them resumed farming with other assistance.
