A Case Study of Development Factors of Mandarin OrangeCultivation at the Mochimune Area, Shizuoka City

In the Mochimune area, there are 51 mandarin orange orchardists, and the total area of the orchards is 10.2 ha (1970). In the Osada district including the Mochimune area, the beginning of cultivation of this fruit is, in general, pretty old. But as for the Mochimune area alone, in spite of good physical condition for cultivation, mandarin orange has been cultivated only for these 20∼25 years.In this paper, the author studied the reasons why the Mochimune area was late in starting cultivation of this fruit.In the Mochimune area, the fishery had been the main occupation for the people before the World War II, and the conditions were unfavourable, for the cultivation of mandarin orange, and the necessity for the cultivation of this fruit was small.During the war the fishery was halted, and it could not be restored after the war, due to lack of ships and the other fishing facilities.For the factors above mentioned, the cultivation of mandarin orange, instead of fishery, was introduced to the Mochimune area ofter the World War II.