都市住民の農業・農地に対する評価と期待 : 高槻市民を例にとって

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to investigate on what sort of visions the citizens in Takatsuki city have and how they evaluate and what they expect on agriculture, farmland and agricultural parks, based on the inquiries survey for citizens in Takatsuki city. As the result of this study, the followings have turned out. i) As for farmland, the citizens think that suitable conbinations of housing areas and farmlands are desirable. ii) As for the local farm products in Takatsuki city, housewives are keen to buy vegitables, the middle age and eldery dwellers are interested in flowers. iii) As for citizen's farm for rent unexpectedly, middle age citizens are interested in. iv) As for the agricultural parks, 93% of citizens are supporting. It can be pointed out that the future development of the agriculture in Takatsuki city is the multipurpose use of farmland which should be considered as the resources to provide not only the traditional food producing function but also the open space function or environment preservation function and the functions to provide leisure and the educational effects for children. His important that agriculture and farmland should be positively considered as environmental resources.