Abstract
This study was aimed at clarifying the situation of farmland ownership by absentee farmers, and the continuous use factor of farmland by means of a questionnaire survey to nonresident farmland owners. In addition, the study tried to derive the problem and counter measures used when the farmland that the absentee farmer owned land was managed by surveying the farmers.
The main details that the farmland owner made absent was farmland succession, and clarified that most farmland which nonresident landowners had acquired through succession was managed by individual farmers. In addition, it is important to note that a main factor to encourage the use of farmland by nonresident landowners is farmland owner homecoming frequency to the region, and relationship to farm managers.
However, it is necessary to develop mechanisms that encourage farmland management, because there might not be a successor to the farmer who manages nonresident landowner land.
The results of the survey indicated the advantages of granting farmland management rights to farmers and re-organizing relations between absentee landowners and regional farmers.
