岡山大学環境理工学部 Acta Medica Okayama 1341-9099 9 1 2004 内モンゴルにおける農業動向と退耕環林環草政策 ―烏蘭察布盟卓資県を事例に― 141 151 EN Fu-Lin Du Yoshihiro Shinabe 10.18926/fest/11474 In this paper, Background of Policy of Replacing Agriculture by Afforestation is clarified by means of the relation of the local Agricultural trend due to performance of the policy, united it the influence in the living and agriculture production to farmer in Zhuo Zi Xian. The investigation to the feasibility of the policy is based on the statistics data and the investigation of the agriculture in Inner Mongolia of China. In progress of the Policy of Replacing Agriculture by Afforestation, change of crop structure and development of animal husbadry were mainly seen in local agriculture. It made "Replacing Agriculture by Afforestation" possible. In order to perform this policy, to prevent retrogradation and develop local Agriculture continuously, technological development and spread in the Sustainable Agriculture, Training of Products processing company and Exploitation of the Products market of Agriculture, Forestry and Stockbreeding should be considered in the future study. No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

岡山大学環境理工学部 Acta Medica Okayama 1341-9099 12 1 2007 農業用水路の地域用水機能とその維持管理に関する住民の意識調査　―岡山県岡山市庭瀬・撫川を事例として- 131 140 EN Tota Makino Takanobu Matsuoka Zhiyong Qi Yosihiro Shinabe 10.18926/fest/11465 The agricultural water has manifold functions for farming at community level. However, along with the difficulties to maintain the agriculture water path that are caused by the decreasing of farmers and the aging of the society, the agricultural water is losing its functions even that as water resource for local community. This paper presents a survey of the residential awareness on regional water utilization to find the possibility for the maintenance of agricultural water path. Economic evaluation is tried for the regional warter utilization function. This study is carried out at a regional level that covers both farming households and non farmers. Following three points can be confirmed based on the results of questionnaire survey. Firstly, local citizens admit that the agricultural water does have some values (3,037 Yen per household per year). Secondly, the higher the environmental awareness is, and the longer the citizen has lived there, the higher evaluation to function of the agricultural water can be observed. Thirdly, even within those who is holding high evaluation to the agricultural water, it is thought to be quite difficult to maintain the agricultural water path due to the aging of the society and uneven distribution of the participants. No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.