The amendment to the Law Concerning Agricultural Committees (Law No. 88 of 1951) came into effect on April 1, 2016, and the most important task for agricultural committees is to promote the optimization of agricultural land use. It is clearly positioned as an essential task. In Sakaide City, flat land and hilly and mountainous land are mixed, and it seems that the use of farmland and the type of farming are different depending on the region. In hilly and mountainous areas, there is concern about the expansion of idle farmland due to the aging of cultivators and damage from birds and animals. While efforts are being made to prevent and eliminate such problems, since land-based agriculture centered on rice and vegetables is popular on flatlands, regional planning (Bill for Partial Revision of the Agricultural Management Base Strengthening Promotion Act (No. 56 of 2022), based on the provisions of Article 19, Paragraph 1 of the Agricultural Management Base Strengthening Promotion Law (No. 65 of 1980) after the revision, municipalities, based on the results of discussions with farmers, etc. For each person in charge of agriculture as a goal for efficient and comprehensive use of agricultural land. This refers to clarified and published maps, etc. that indicate the agricultural land to be used.）in the farmland based on It seems that it is necessary to work on usage adjustment utilizing the space management business. Sakaide is an area that has been associated with salt since ancient times, as evidenced by the excavation of salt pottery from the Yayoi and Kofun periods. Then, in the Edo period, Eizaemon Kume (1780-1841), who established the city as a town of salt, appeared. He was born in Kagawa as the son of a boat rudder craftsman. Calling himself "Michikata", he made a name for himself as a master of artillery and artillery. In 1824, when the finances of the Takamatsu clan were declining and the people were suffering from poverty, he decided to restore the finances of the clan and cultivate salt fields off the shallow coast of Sakaide in order to save the people. Yorihiro Matsudaira（1798-1842, Father: Harunori Tokugawa, 7th lord of Hitachi Mito Domain Father-in-law: Yorinori Matsudaira, 8th lord of Sanuki Takamatsu Domain. 9th lord of Sanuki Takamatsu Domain). In 1826, he became Fushin-bugyo (shogunate official responsible for public works) at Sakaide new rice field. In addition, the approximately 20,000 ryo from the clan was not enough, and a total of approximately 1,940,000 people were mobilized with their own funds. Three years later, in 1829, approximately 132 ha of salt fields, including Higashi-Ohama and Nishi-Ohama, were cultivated. successful. He is famous as the person who created Japan's first survey map before Tadataka Ino (1745-1818), a great man from Kujukuri Town, Sanmu County, Chiba Prefecture.
On December 13, 2022, 14 third graders from Kuwayama Elementary School (Okamoto) are experiencing broccoli harvesting. With the cooperation of local producers, each elementary school in Toyonaka Town, Mitoyo seems to do this every year. Before the harvesting experience, a staff member of the Kagawa Prefecture Seisan Agricultural Improvement and Extension Center explained about the history and characteristics of broccoli. Listening to the story, the children learn that local broccoli production is thriving. I am deeply impressed by the magnificence of the teaching staff, who consider the field of food education, which is greatly influenced by the growth process, to be a valuable experience, and impose hands-on experience. In addition, the main production areas of broccoli in the Kagawa irrigation district are Takamatsu City, Sakaide City, Mitoyo City, and Kanonji City. Among the 863 million tons of annual water volume newly developed for the Sameura Dam by the "Yoshino River Compre...