Abstract
This paper discusses the trend of agricultural land valuation and land rental in the northeast, by taking Tsuruoka in Yamagata province as an example. Analyses are made of the trend in agricultural land transfers between land buyer and seller. In addition, it is seen that government and agriculture cooperatives have used successful methods to maintain the value of local agricultural land during the continued decline in land prices.
The paper also reports research on the preservation and fluidization of agricultural land according to the impact of local agriculture and declining land prices.
