Typology of Field Crop Cultivation in Okayama after the Meiji Era

冈山县旱地作物种类繁多，其作物组合和种植模式受当地自然条件和经济社会状况的影响，将大田作物栽培分为14种类型：A类无优势作物，无牧草作物，B类无优势作物，C类无优势作物，D B型分布于北方和南方，B型在北方以萝卜栽培为特征，C型在平原地区以二棱大麦为特征。这三种类型都依赖于土地的粗放耕作，D型大豆和二棱大麦的种植面积明显大于其他地区，并占据了冈山的中心区域; E型作物复合体丰富，尤其是块根作物，如白色马铃薯、甘薯、佐藤（Colocacia antiquorum）。F型有大麦、红豆、烟草、荞麦。G型以北方地区栽培茶叶为特征。H型到N型共7个类型，在其农作物综合体中是独特的。

In Okayama prefecture,various crops are grown in upland fields, and the crop combination and cropping pattern are affected by the natural condition and the economic and social situation of the location.Field crop cultivation was classified into fourteen types.A-type has no dominant crop without herbage crop, and is distributed northern and southern part.B-type was characterlized by radish cultivation in the northern part.C-type has two rowed barley in plain area. These three types depend on land extensive cultivation.D-type has significantly larger land of soybeans and two rowed barley than other area, and occupied central area of Okayama.E-type was characterlized by abundance of crop complex, especially in root crops, i.e. white potato, sweet potato,satoimo (Colocacia antiquorum).F-type has barley, azuki bean, tobacco, buckwheat.G-type was characterized by cultivation of tea in north area.Each of seven types, H-type to N-type, was peculiar in its crop complex.