According to the improvement of local airports, transportation capacity by the jumbo jet airplane service has greatly increased. Around local airports, we can find some new high technological factories and also new agricultural regions using air transportation.
The aim of this paper is to examine how the agricultural region of chrysanthemums production using air transport has been formed and what regional conditions exist in this area.
The characteristics of agricultural region as the result of the case study in Kamotocho, Kumamoto Prefecture, are summarized as follows.
1) Before the introduction of chrysanthemums production, the charactor of the agricultural management in Kamoto-cho indicated the combination type of rice and melon in a year. By the implementation of Paddy Field Reorganization Policy, paddy field changed to be used chrysanthemums production instead of rice. So the charactor of agricultural management in Kamoto-cho changed to indicate the production system of melon and chrysanthemum in a year. Recently we can find the diversification of farmers who produce many types of chrysanthemums.
2) Kamoto-cho is located in about one hour distance by car from Kumamoto Airport. In 1975, it began the jumbo jet airplane service to Tokyo and other large cities, so the air transportation of chrysanthmum to Tokyo was increased. During the Period of the depressed production near Tokyo metropolitan area, Kamoto kept the steady supplier of the chrysanthemum in Tokyo market.
3) In order to examine the formation of chrysanthemums production area using air transport, we must consider not only the accessibility of airport and the air transportation system such as market factors, but also the regional conditions and the agricultural managements of the agricultural area. So, its formation process consist of the complex organic factors.
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