Potato farming - potato farming

Japanese: イモ作農業 - いもさくのうぎょう
Potato farming - potato farming

...They are thought to have originally been a maritime people who lived along the coast from mainland China to the Indochina Peninsula, but gradually began to advance into the Pacific Ocean, spreading from the Philippines to Micronesia, Indonesia, and Melanesia. They introduced root crop agriculture (tuber farming) to the indigenous peoples of these regions, and by about 1500 BC had reached eastern Melanesia, and by about 1200 BC had reached Tonga. Around 300, a large-scale migration of people from Tonga to various parts of Polynesia began, and by about 1000, they had spread over a vast area stretching from the Hawaiian Islands in the north to New Zealand in the south and Easter Island in the east.

*Some of the terminology used in relation to "potato farming" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…彼らはもともと,中国大陸からインドシナ半島にかけての沿岸地方に住んでいた海洋民であると思われるが,しだいに太平洋へ進出しはじめ,フィリピンからミクロネシア,インドネシア,メラネシアへと拡大していった。そして,これらの地域の先住民に根栽農業(イモ作農業)をもたらしつつ,前1500年ころには東部メラネシアにまで達し,さらに前1200年ころにはトンガに達した。そして300年ころからは,トンガを拠点としてポリネシア各地への大規模な民族移動が始まり,1000年ころまでに,北はハワイ諸島,南はニュージーランド,東はイースター島に至る広大な範囲に広がっていったのである。…

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