Table 2.
Overview of farmland for each farm household type
| Farmer type | Total owned farmland | Rented farmland | Total managed farmland | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planted farmland (a) | Abandoned farmland | Farmland for lease | (b) | (a) + (b) | ||
| (km2) | (km2) | (km2) | (km2) | (km2) | (km2) | |
| Farm organization | 4.41 | 4.1 (92.97) | 0.1 (2.27) | 0.21 (4.76) | 26.46 | 30.56 |
| Full-time farmers | 21.65 | 17.12 (79.08) | 2.65 (12.24) | 1.88 (8.68) | 16.59 | 33.71 |
| Part-time farmers | 47.3 | 36.49 (77.15) | 6.68 (14.12) | 4.13 (8.73) | 30.89 | 67.37 |
| Self-sufficient farmers | 24.18 | 8.31 (34.37) | 7.3 (30.19) | 8.57 (35.44) | 0.7 | 9.01 |
| Total | 97.54 | 66.02 (67.69) | 16.73 (17.15) | 14.79 (15.16) | 74.64 | 140.65 |
Numbers in parentheses are the percentages of planted farmland, abandoned farmland, or farmland for lease to owned farmland
A farm household is defined as a household engaged in farming and managing 10 ares or more of cultivated land or earning more than JPY 150,000 per year from the sale of agricultural products (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 2017). A farm household is classified as commercial if it manages 30 ares or more or earns more than JPY 500,000 per year from the sale of agricultural products. Here, commercial households are classified as either full-time (only farming) or part-time (having other jobs) farmers. Noncommercial households are listed as self-sufficient farmers