Abstract
The sloped land area such as hills and mountains have been compared with those of Italy, with which land use technology is integrated, such as fruit growing and animal husbandry. Land under permanent crops and permanent grassland of Italy have long been developed to the state larger than those of Japan by 10 to 20 times in term of area per head. especially vine-yards and olive growing for the former and sheep, goats and cattles for the latter. A possibility of similar utilization of sloped land area of Japan such as formerly called SATOYAMA fuelwooded area and other some mountain districts amounting to about 3.5 - 8.2 million hectares can be considered.
