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KEYWORDS : 中山間制度

This paper takes up the case of Kuriyama Town, Hokkaido, particularly the efforts of the Kuriyama Town Agricultural Promotion Public Corporation, which generaly supports the operation of direct payment in hilly and mountainous areas, and sets out how the business of the town agricultural administration and the town municipal government has developed over the years, in order to clarify the operation of and problems involved in direct payment in hilly and mountainous areas of paddy fields in Hokkaido.