Regional systematic research on the relationships between racehorse stables and sustainable farming.

这项研究的调查人员调查了蔬菜生产和水稻种植中赛马马厩与可持续耕作方式之间的区域关系。结果证实了东京都地区赛马马厩与集约化蔬菜农场之间的密切关系。自20世纪70年代以来，快速的城市化迫使日本赛马协会的一个赛马训练中心和许多私人赛马马厩从近郊迁至外围地区。Miho培训中心(MTC)的建立促进了茨城县许多马厩的发展，MTC和赛马马厩产生了大量的粪便。粪便、处理过的堆肥和“泥土”被卖到东京近郊的园艺农场。这些有机肥料对该地区园艺的可持续发展至关重要。Saito和Morimoto报告说，千叶县的蔬菜种植者和梨种植者购买粪便或堆肥，然后把它们放在田里保持土壤产量。根据Tabayashi的说法，在日本赛马养殖的领先区日中地区，中小型种马养殖场比大型工业化种马养殖场更可持续。Masui报告了包括稻田、赛马农场和蔬菜农场在内的区域资源-粪便和秸秆-循环系统。齐藤、森本和竹林在澳大利亚阿米代尔的IGU农村系统可持续发展委员会上公布了他们的结果。

Investigators of this research examined the regional relationships between racehorse stables and sustainable ways of farming in vegetable production and rice cultivation.The results confirmed the close relationships between racehorse stables and intensive vegetable farms in Tokyo Metropolitan Area.Since the 1970s, rapid urbanization forced a racehorse training center of the Japan Racing Association and many private racehorse stables to move from the inner suburban area to the outer one. The establishment of Miho Training Center (MTC) promoted many stables developed in Ibaraki Prefecture.The MTC and racehorse stables produce large amount of manure. Manure, processed compost, and "mush-soil" are marketed to horticultural farms in the inner suburban area of Tokyo. These organic fertilizers have been essential to maintain horticulture sustainably in this area. Saito and Morimoto reported that vegetable growers and pear growers in Chiba prefecture buy manure or compost and put them in their field to keep soil productive.According to Tabayashi, medium-or small-sized stud farms are more sustainable than large-scale industrialized stud farms in the Hidaka Region, the leading area in racehorse farming in Japan. Masui reported that the regional resource-manure and straws-circulation systems which included rice farms, racehorse farms, and vegetable farms.Saito, Morimoto, and Tabayashi presented their results in the IGU commission on the sustanability of rural systems in Armidale, Australia.