The 2nd year Research Task ⅡA, “A fieldwork in Miyagi Prefecture”

We invited 6 farmers who lived in Ichihasama at Ichihasama agricultural environment improving center & conducted an interview research, the purpose was “To learn the difficulties of farmers & how agricultural water is used by talking directly to farmers & to increase the technique of an interview.” from 10:00 to 12:00 on Sunday, the 27th of November.

3 or 4 students made a group, & interviewed one farmer for about 25 minutes. Interviewing a total of 4 farmers. They repeated this 4 times.

They are going to present the product of their study utilizing public comments & findings received this time at many presentations for the future.

They had lunch in a circle after the interviews & they made speeches one by one while mixing their questions (which they could not ask) & issues (which farmers could not talk about enough during the interviews). One student made a speech stating that she was surprised by the difference between information she had gathered from books or internet sources & what she heard from farmers.

They asked questions about current difficulties of farmers in Tohoku Region & how to use daily water & so on in questions & answers. They could learn the homogeneity & the heterogeneity of consciousness of farmers in the Tohoku Region & South East Asia with interest. We felt that agriculture requires sophisticated expertise & farmers both in Tohoku Region & in South East Asia are on the front line of a price war in a global world.

　　
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