Self-cultivation - Jisaku no Ushugi

Japanese: 自作農主義 - じさくのうしゅぎ

The idea that the most desirable form of agriculture is for farmers to own and manage their own land. The first agricultural policy based on this idea to be implemented in Japan was the 1926 Owner-farmer Establishment and Maintenance Policy based on the Regulations for Subsidizing the Establishment and Maintenance of Owner-farmers, and the land reforms after World War II further took this idea to heart, dismantling the landlord system and establishing owner-farmers on a broad scale. The Farmland Law was then enacted in 1952 with the aim of maintaining the results of the land reforms, and Article 1 of this law provided a legal provision recognizing that it is most appropriate for farmland to be owned by the cultivator himself, which led to owner-farmerism being the basic principle of postwar agricultural policy.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

自作農が農地の所有および経営をすることが最も望ましい農業の形態であるとする考え方。この考え方にたつ農業政策が日本で最初に実施されるのは1926年の自作農創設維持補助規則に基づく自作農創設維持政策であり，さらに第2次大戦後の農地改革はこの考え方を徹底させ地主制を解体し広範に自作農を創設した。ついで農地改革の成果を維持する目的で52年に農地法が制定されるが，その第1条において農地はその耕作者みずからが所有することを最も適当であると認めるという法的規定を与えたことにより，自作農主義が戦後農政の基本原則とされることになった。

出典　株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典第２版について　情報

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