Life Pattern of Farming Families After Mechanization in Rice Cropping

1)实地调查：选取山形县某农村社区17户农户，分别于1月、5月、8月和9月进行为期一周的时间使用日记。5月和9月被定为水稻种植旺季。2)计算收集到的数据经活动编码、打孔、计算机处理。制作了如下表格：每月和天气每天每项活动的平均时长、每月每项活动的平均时长、天气、性别和年龄、每周每项活动每天的平均时长、性别和年龄。这一结果与冈山县1985年收集的数据进行了比较。分析水稻种植的机械化，使农民只掌握肥料控制和灌溉，使农业家庭的生活方式退化。劳动形态和劳动前景的退化是显著的。年轻人的个性明显，会导致年轻人和老年人之间的代际冲突。

1) Field SurveyMembers of seventeen farm households at a rural community in Yamagata prefecture were asked to keep time use diary of one week four times : January, May, August and September. May and September were scheduled as busy rice cropping seasons.2) CalculationThe data collected were coded by activity, punched and processed by computer. Such tabulations as average length of each activity a day month and weather, average length of each activity a day by month, weather, sex and age, average length of each activity a day by day of a week, sex and age were made. The result was compared with the data from Okayama prefecture, which were collected in 1985.3) AnalysisMechanization in rice cropping, which has left only fertilizer control and watering in the hands of a farmer, degraded farming in the life pattern of farming family. Degradation is notable in labor pattern and perspective. Individuality, obvious among the young, will causes the generational conflict between the young and the aged.