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Hokkaido is an important agricultural area of Japan. The amount of arable land managed per farming household has been increasing because of the aging of farmers and the decreasing number of agricultural households. To improve labor productivity, increasing the size of paddy fields and developing groundwater-level control systems have been promoted in recent years. Hokkaido has a cool climate, so its...
The decrease in food supply capability due to the ageing and the reduction of numbers of farmers has been a concern all over Japan in recent years. As a countermeasure by the government, improvement of the agricultural infrastructure has been carried out to concentrate farmland for core farmers and to realize highly profitable agriculture. Hokkaido is the northernmost island of Japan and one of the...
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