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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/42905

Characteristics of Agricultural Development on Sanjiang Plain : Development of Paddy Fields of State Farm from a Macroscopic Perspective

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2010-03-31

The Department of Agricultural Economics, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University

The Nokei Ronso : The Review of Agricultural Economics Hokkaido University

65

83-100

This paper is intended to elucidate from a macroscopic perspective the characteristics of the rapid development of irrigation and drainage systems and paddy fields on the Sanjiang Plain. The entities involved in this project were stratified: on the first stratum was a national project for comprehensive land development; on the second stratum was the Bureau of Agricultural Reclamation, which manages state farms, and its Agricultural Reclamation Administration branch; and on the third stratum was zhigong farmers. The existence of these stratified entities was a condition made necessary by the nature of this project, i.e., development of a large wetland. Being at a point where three major rivers meet, the Sanjiang Plain is a flood plain, and so major infrastructure development was required, thereby necessitating this national project for flood control. The unique existence of the local government, which administers the political as well as the economic vehicle of state farms, also contributed to the promotion of agricultural development. It was also the existence of zhigong farmers, who assumed superiority and had the economic accumulation which brought this project to success that helped to stabilize rice production with an underground water irrigation system.

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