抄録
In order to protect agricultural land and establish the land use order in urbanized rural areas, we should make an appropriate land use plan based not only on land use suitability but also on the wishes of farmers who own the land. Otherwise the planned conversion of agricultural land to urban use cannot be achieved, and the confusion of land use will be advanced further.
The results of a questionnaire survey of farmers living in the urbanized rural areas of Osaka and Kyoto show that farmers wish to own and cultivate agricultural land which is at least 20-30 ares in size, close to home, with high potential for agricultural production. On the other hand, agricultural land they wish to sell or divert to urban use within the next ten years is only about5 ares in size, far from home, with low potential for production.
The author, by using the rural district of Seika municipal town as an example, developed a planmaking method for land use, integrating both the farmers' wishes as well as the land use suitability. Some problems of the land suitability classification for land use planning are also discussed with a suggestion for a new land classification method which takes into account the effects of landconsolida-tion.
