Regional Differentiation in Japanese Peasantry

1960年農林業センサス以後,農民の経営耕地階層間移動についての全国的な統計が与えられるようになった。本稿は近年,遠隔地域の東北,四国,九州において,農民の経営拡大の動きがかなり活潑であったことを確認し,あわせてその起動力となったと思われる当該地域の農家の経済状態を概観した。This paper examines regional differences of the structural change in recent Japanese agriculture, analyzing the reports of agricultural censuses in 1960, 1965 and 1970. In the Tohoku, Shikoku and Kyushu districts, where employment opportunities were less than in others, a comparatively large number of peasants widened acreage of their cultivation. This expansion owed largely to the production of relatively profitable crops in those regions, such as rice, fruits etc., the prices of which have been maintained by either the governmental subsidy or the rapid increase in demand