Abstract
In our country the production of rice exceede the need since 1967. Since them, Japanese agricultural policy bave changed to decrease rice production. Rice framers have been forced to adjust their acreage of rice production.
The purpose of this symposium was to examine the regional changes in the adjustment of rice production.
The reporters and their themes were as follows:
(1) AZUMA, R. and OKAMOTO, J.: Rice production adjustment and changing patterns of land use in Hokkaido.
(2) MATSUI, S.: Rice-producing co-operatives, and controls on rice production in the Western Mikawa plain.
(3) KAWAKAMI, M.: On the growth and development of the contrastive cultivation (Yami Kosaku) a case study of Ohgata, Niigata prefecture—.
(4) ISOBE, T., FURUSAWA, F., CHIKA, T., HAMADA, T., KUWABARA, N. and SAITO A.: The changies in farms and the rice-producing co-operation particularly Kamihachimai and Kohirakata areas, lower reaches of the Shinano, Niigata prefecture—.
(5) TAKAHASHI, M.: The characteristics and problems on the co-operative groups for rice production—a case study in Izumiotsu—.
(6) KIKUKAWA, K.: Rice producing co-operatives of the rice-producing farms and their adaptation to the administrative measures of rice production adjustment in the Saga plain, Kyusyu.
Many opinions were presented on the floor mainly concerning: 1) what changes occured in rice producing area, 2) operation of the rice-producing co-operatives, 3) changing farms and patterns of land use.
