抄録
As a supplements to his previous paper, the author reports on the recent change of the newly reclaimed upland fields into rice fields in the Showa settlements in Yamagata prefecture. That is, with the exception of only three farms managing orchards of aples and etc., seventy four farms carrying on ordinary field farming with dairy farming have changed their upland fields into the rice fields depending on new irrigation sources, and seventeen farms belonging to the first Showa, settlement have completed the constructionn of rice fields. The average acreage scale of rice field per farm surpassed 5.0ha and the increased acreage was obtained by means of the conversion of the land formerly used as windbreaks and grasslands.
