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Research of Subsistence in Marginal Area

Organizer
WATANABE, Kazuo
Outline
The Marginal areas face severe agricultural condition, such as low soil fertility, steep slope, drought and flood, widely spread in Asia Monsoon Region. The marginal area has various agricultural technologies and culture witch adjust to such environmental condition area by area.
The purpose of this study is to clarify changing process on social, economy and agriculture and to understand the current situation of subsistence under industrial society in the marginal area.
The focus areas are Dry Zone at Myanmar and Deccan Plateau at India and Khorat Plateau at Thailand and Laos.