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The focus of this paper is Assabu-cho, located in the southern part of Hokkaido, which has been an outdoor-culture horticultural area since the second half of the 1980s.　　Along with the increase of vegetable production, the number of part-time farmer is on the rise. At the same time, the large-scale farmers which have paddy filed and other cultivated lands was developed in a state of excess-supply of agricultural land leases. And such condition is caused by aging of agricultural community. In this paper, the conditions that led to the development of such large-scale management are ascertained by means of a survey, and we study the issues associated with the establishment of land-use agriculture.