A Basic Planning of Land Utilization and Development in Shoei Regions : Studies on the Land Utilization and Readjustment for the Re-development of a Rural Regions[I]

The planning of land utilization and readjustment including living-circumstances in the rural regions has become a very important problem. Here we set up the basic planning of land utilization and development in 1985 in Shoei District which covers five towns belonging to Katsuta and Aida countries. In this case, the influences that may be brought by the Chugoku traversing highway are especially taken into consideration. The aims are as follows: 1) About 2, 700 ha of rich flat land are allocated to paddy fields. 2) It is necessary to develop a hillock plateau and make it into a chief producing district of fruits. 3) To promote animal husbandry, it is necessary to develop adjacent slope combining with valley bottom paddy fields. 4) To advance the economical stability and progress of the inhabitants, we aim to attract factories according to the land utilization planning. 5) In consequence of these enforcement, the agricultural population in this district decrease to about 55% or 41% of that of the present.