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This list of the 100 Terraced Rice Fields of Japan (日本の棚田百選, Nihon no tanada hyakusen) is an initiative by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to promote the maintenance and preservation of the terraces alongside public interest in agriculture and rural areas.
Matsudai is one of the sites of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, first held in 2000.The Matsudai Snow-Land Agrarian Culture Centre (aka Matsudai Nobutai) was built in 2003 by architects MVRDV as part of the Triennial and is the focal point for local contemporary art activities.
The site also yielded pre-Yayoi pottery, human footprints, carbonized rice, stone knives, and wooden tools. [2] The site has been preserved as an archaeological park with re-creations of pit-style dwellings and rice fields and a museum. [2] The site is approximately 2.1 kilometers east of Takeshita Station on the JR Kyushu Kagoshima Main Line.
The average rice field acreage of a Japanese farmer is very small and rice production is highly mechanized. Due to small farms, rice production is considered a part-time occupation by many farmers. The number of Japanese farm households and farm population has declined in recent decades, as has rice production.
Yellow: 5 areas/sections in Tōkamachi City (Tōkamachi, Kawanishi, Matsudai, Matsunoyama and Nakasato) Koshirakura, Tōkamachi in winter Tōkamachi (十日町市, Tōkamachi-shi) is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
Development of agricultural output of Japan in 2015 US$ since 1961 Fields of Chiba prefecture Rice fields. Agriculture, forestry, and fishing (Japanese: 農林水産, nōrinsuisan) form the primary sector of industry of the Japanese economy together with the Japanese mining industry, but together they account for only 1.3% of gross national product.
Ta-no-Kami (田の神) is a kami who is believed to observe the harvest of rice plants or to bring a good harvest, by Japanese farmers. Ta in Japanese means "rice fields". Ta-no-Kami is also called Noushin (kami of agriculture) or kami of peasants.
Chadwick Arboretum is a 62 acres (25 ha) arboretum on the Agriculture campus of Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio, United States.The main arboretum collection is located just across Lane Avenue from the Schottenstein Center with its other collections nearby.