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The most striking feature of Japanese agriculture is the shortage of farmland due to Japan's distinctive geography and geology. The 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi) under cultivation constituted just 13.2% of the total land area in 1988.
The Imperial Agricultural Association (帝国農会, Teikoku Nokai) was a central organization for agricultural cooperatives in the Empire of Japan. It was established in 1910, and provided assistance to individual cooperatives through transmission of agricultural research and facilitating the sales of farm products.
Agriculture museums in Japan (1 P) Pages in category "History of agriculture in Japan" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
This list is of the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (世界農業遺産, Sekai nōgyō isan) (), as designated by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), [1] [2] and Japanese Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (日本農業遺産, Nihon nōgyō isan) (JNIAHS), [3] as designated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), [4] in Japan.
Wet-field rice agriculture was introduced into Japan between the Final Jōmon and the Early Yayoi periods. It is thought that this started the archipelago's agricultural revolution with its first intensive crop production. [8] Rice occupies an emotional place in Japanese history, society, and political economy (Hsu, 1994).
History of agriculture in Japan (1 C, 5 P) J. Japanese farmers (16 P) Japanese tea (4 C, 22 P) O. Agricultural organizations based in Japan (2 C, 5 P) R.
Japanese farmer Kiyoharu Hirao has started to add more rice to the mix he gives his cattle in order to stretch his money further as a plunging yen drives up the cost of imported corn used in ...
[5] [6] The Japanese Shorthorn was created by crossing the Nanbu cattle bred in the former Nanbu Domain territory in northeastern Japan (present-day Iwate Prefecture) with Shorthorns and other breeds imported from the United States, but P has not been detected in Shorthorns and is thought to be derived from the Nanbu cattle. [7]