The State of Health of the Farmers in a Remote Mountainous Agricultural Village, Who Annually Go to Cities for Seasonal Employment, and its Social Background

Report 2. On the Economic and Social Conditions of the Farmers Annually Going to Cities for Seasonal Employment

Abstract

Concerning the farmers in Akanma District, who annually went to cities to work, we investigated what to see economic classes they belonged to. We found that some of them were from the higher economic classes, while the others were from the lower economic classes.Considering their age, the composition of their families and the extent of the land owned by them, we reached the conclusion that most people in Akanma District could not live solely on agriculture. And yet there were no places for them to work in the neighbourhood, so they were compelled to go to cities.To earn the living in this way, which was essentially due to the high economic growth policy of the Japanese capitalism, was already a commonplace matter in Akanma District.
In order to push forward the community program of health protection in Akanma District hereafter, we shall need the class consolidation of the unions of farmers working in cities as well as the activities covering all the inhabitants.