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Farmland Reclamation around Wetland
Relamation with Strong Support of Governement

Kushiro region takes an important role as the base of dairy product. The intensive development as production base of dairy product at this region began at 1950s, and since then the area of farmland has increased from about 20,000 to over 30,000 hectars. The total area of increase, more than 10,000 hectars, is about equal to more than 2,200 of baseball fields.
Following figure shows transittion of area of farmland of each cities around Kushiro wetland. There was such an intensive increase from 1975 to 1990, but recently the increase has slowed down.

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