Abstract
The purpose of this study is to clarify the relation betweem the production adjustment of rice and the characteristics of local agriculture, and to present effective methods to use the farmland appropriately after that. In this paper, Cluster analysis was carried out according to the percentage of each item in total area of the production adjustment and as aresult 44 municipalities of Kyoto Prefecture were classified into five patterns. The agricultural characteristics of each pattern were analyzed and the relevancy was found between the percentage of each item and (1) the rate of paddy field and (2) the farming scale.