During the two decades 1960-1980 the Japanese government was
faced with a problem of declining domestic demand for rice and a
persistent over-production which created mounting surpluses stored
at public expense. In an attempt to remedy the situation the
Japanese government imposed production controls on rice and offered
incentives to...
Soil is a valuable medium when investigating the past-- from understanding rates of development, landform evolution, to the construction of various predictive models. Landforms and sediments provide insight into depositional environments and soil morphology indicates pedogenic change within those landforms. The rate at which pedogenesis occurs has been quantitatively measured...