Today's Situation of the Rice-crop Farming and the Transition of Rural Community

本研究试图阐明日本稻米生产转型对农村社会的影响。经济的快速发展带来了水稻种植机械化和联合收割机农转非的增加。我们分析了东北、北海道和冲绳三个水稻生产地区的水稻生产趋势和稻农的态度。在东北地区的庄内，多种经营和妇女在其中的作用越来越重要。另一方面，在北海道地区，多种农业陷入困境。在冲绳县石垣市，畜牧业和蔬菜种植业的增加。今天，日本的农业生产在水稻生产、畜牧业、绿色蔬菜生产等方面多样化。多种经营的增加影响着家庭农场和农民的意识。由此，农村社区逐渐由同质化的农民组织向多样化的农家社会转变。

In this study,we tried to illuminate how the rural community is influenced by the transition of the rice production in Japan. Rapid economic growth brought about the mechanization in rice cultivation and the increase to combine agriculture with non-farm work. We have made analyses of the tendency of rice production and rice farmer's attitude in the three areas of the wet-rice production, that is Tohoku, Hokkaido and Okinawa.In Shonai of the Tohoku district, the multiple operations and women's roles in it rise in importance. In the Hokkaido district, on the other hand, the multiple agriculture is in difficulties. In Ishigaki of the Okinawa prefecture, the stock farming and tabacco cultivation increase.Today's agricultural production in Japan diversifies in wet-rice production, stock farming, green vegitable production and so on. Increasing of the multiple operation is influences family farm and farmer's consciousness. As a result, the rural community changes gradually from the organization of homogeneous farmers into the society of varied farmhouses.