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Agriculture in the Empire of Japan was an important component of the pre-war Japanese economy. Although Japan had only 16% of its land area under cultivation before the Pacific War, over 45% of households made a living from farming. Japanese cultivated land was mostly dedicated to rice, which accounted for 15% of world rice production in 1937.
The importance of agriculture in the national economy later continued its rapid decline, with the share of net agricultural production in GNP finally reduced between 1975 and 1989 from 4.1% to 3% In the late 1980s, 85.5% of Japan's farmers were also engaged in occupations outside farming, and most of these part-time farmers earned most of their ...
The Cellulose production resulted in 8% of U.S. manufacture; the Cellulose industry in Japan developed in Shikoku, North Honshū, Hokkaidō, Chosen, Manchukuo and Karafuto. In Karafuto was the Shiretoru Cellulose Factory, the most advanced installation dedicated to the cellulose industry in all of East Asia .
History of agriculture in Japan (1 C, 5 P) J. Japanese farmers (16 P) Japanese tea (4 C, 22 P) O. ... Rice production in Japan; S. Sapporo Satoland; Satoyama; T ...
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.
The first paddy fields in Japan date to the Early Yayoi period (300 BC – 250 AD). [28] The Early Yayoi has been re-dated, [29] and based on studies of early Japanese paddy formations in Kyushu it appears that wet-field rice agriculture in Japan was directly adopted from the Lower Yangtze river basin in Eastern China. [citation needed]
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).