Comparison

 Today, I will write a blog about Japanese agriculture and foreign one comparison.

 We often hear "The food self-sufficiency ratio in Japan has a low"  in reported news. therefore, you may think that in Japan agriculture is not so prosperous. But, Japan is one of the countries where agriculture is the most prosperous.

Japanese agriculture

  At first, the thing I want you to know is that it is only Japan in the world to measure food self-sufficiency ratio. The food self-sufficiency ratio is totally unreliable in showing a scale of the national agriculture. According to a certain investigation, Japan is the fifth agriculture large country in the world.  
 Ｔhe gross domestic product of the Japanese agriculture is 5,349 billion yen, and accounts for all industrial 1.13% in 2,009 years.  The work force of the agriculture is 2,360,000 people, and accounts for all industrial 3.7% in 2009 and is the work force of the country second place next to the construction industry. 

・Characteristic of Japanese agriculture
The scale of the house is small. The productivity per unit area is high. There are many rice fields on the land use, but the cultivation of vegetables, flowers, fruit trees increase by the change of the eating habits.

・Problem of Japanese agriculture
　Ｉt is necessary to raise quality and productivity to be opposed to the cheap import goods from the foreign country.　

・Agricultural methods peculiar to Japan
 Forcing culture : Agricultural method to raise farm products such as vegetables or flowers early with a warm climate and plastic greenhouses. We can sell more highly than outdoor culture.

   Agriculture in the high mountain where it is cool :   Agricultural method to cultivate cabbages and Chinese cabbages with a cool climate of the plateau from spring to summer.

    Agriculture in suburban areas :   Agricultural method to supply vegetables, flowers and milk for a city in the suburbs of a big city. Because farmland is near the market, we can send fresh things, and transit cost is not so high.

Foreign agriculture

・America
  American agriculture is basically efficiency serious consideration.Therefore little number of people performs large-scale agriculture.Therefore they use the considerably big agricultural machine.Because the machine needs to be contained, it is necessary to do suitable division maintenance.





・France
  France is the Europe's greatest agriculture large country. The main agricultural method is Mediterranean agriculture. The Mediterranean agriculture is a agricultural method to a Cs climate to dry in summer. The main cultivation crops are fruit trees (olive orange grape) and cereals (wheat, barley). The domestic animals are sheep, goats resisting drying, and shifting pasturage is carried out.





・Netherlands
  The Netherlands main agricultural method is gardening agriculture. Gardening agriculture is intensive agriculture at the point of the expense that it costs for the labor per unit area, the annual labor days, dropping capital in large quantities. It is divided into agriculture in urban areas and suburban agriculture by the distance with the city. The cultivation crops are vegetables, flowers, fruits, and they are produced for a city. Because product value is high as an article having high freshness, limitation of the transportation is large.