抄録
The present paper takes up all the tulip bulb farmers who engaged in tulip bulb cultivation for 44 years from 1948 to 1991 in the Kurobe alluvial fan in the northeast of Toyama Prefecture. Based on changes of their distribution, the paper clarifies the process of forming the bulb cultivation area and discusses various conditions of its formation. As a result, it becomes clear that the cultivation area expanded from several specific rural communities to the environs in the 1950s and receded again to the rural communities and their vicinities in and after the 1960s. The area where the tulip bulb cultivation became active up to the mid-1950s still now plays a core part. The bulb cultivation distributed area corresponded to the area in which several former municipalities were integrated. The formative conditions of the tulip-bulb producing area, such as roles of the Tulip Bulb Farmers' Cooperative in Toyama Prefecture, other agricultural management sectors, relations with off-farm employment, pioneers and leaders, existence of regional organizations, and subsidy from the administration are important, not to mention the climate, soil, and other natural conditions. In addition to these, age, existence of successors, technical level, and other attributes of the farmers and the individuals are related.
