Research On The Agricultural "Production-increasing, Movement" In Late Puppet Manchukuo (1940-1945)

The puppet Manchuria government since the "production" in1932, to the death in1945, has been engaged in agriculture "production-increasing", but especially in the lateperiod (1940~1945) is the largest, the most representative, and was billed as a agriculture"production-increasing movement" of the puppet government. In late puppet Manchukuo,the demand of agricultural products grew with each passing day because of the Japaneseaggression War, but from1939to1940, Japan’s, Korean’s agriculture continue dullbecause of such as drought disaster reasons; and the further expansion of Japanese War ofaggression made the import of agricultural products difficult because of American’s seablockade, Japanese agricultural products was in serious short supply. In order to solvethis dilemma, Japan made the puppet regime in Manchuria as the main base of the supplyof agricultural products, through the puppet government put up a pageantry of so-calledagricultural "production-increasing movement ".But the agricultural "production-increasing movement" in late puppet Manchukuo,the puppet government only paid attention to the agricultural products related to thequartermaster supplies, and relied on expanding the farming area and increase theinvestment of human resources to achieve the "production-increasing", but theagricultural improvement measures being advocated was not really put in place. As aresult, in addition to the individual crops which associated with the Japanese invasionwar got deformity increase, other crops were in a state of atrophy. It destroyed the normalstructure of agricultural production, made our country’s agriculture in the northeast ofChina was on the verge of collapse, people also lived in hardship, thus effectivelycritique the "development of the Northeast" of the right-wing Japanese scholars. But atthe same time of criticism, also should see the agriculture "production-increasingmovement" still achieved some results in the establishment farmland irrigation works andso on.This paper focuses on the main line of the agriculture "production-increasingmovement" in late puppet Manchukuo, systematically discussed the implementation andmain content of the so-called agriculture "production-increasing movement", and madean evaluation and summaries the characteristics and consequences of the agriculture "production-increasing movement" in late puppet Manchukuo.The first part discussed the implementation of the agriculture "production-increasingmovement" in late puppet Manchukuo, and expound the "empire" of Japan was shortageof agricultural products supply in late puppet Manchukuo, and the start and developmentdue to Japan was shortage of supply in agricultural products made puppet Manchukuo tocarry out the agriculture "production-increasing movement".The second part refered to large amounts of data and relevant materials, respectivelyfrom the six aspects of agricultural "production-increasing" mechanism, farming,irrigation and water conservancy, improvement of agricultural finance and so on,systematically discussed the agriculture "production-increasing movement" in late puppetManchukuo, and pointed out the predatory nature of agriculture "production-increasingmovement" that Japanese made puppet Manchukuo developed.The third part analyzed the characteristics of the agriculture "production-increasingmovement " in late puppet Manchukuo, and summarized three big consequences, such asthe acreage and yield abnormal growth of military related crops caused by theagricultural "production-increasing movement", as well as in the agricultural"production-increasing movement", the puppet government strengthened the fascism inrural areas, made people’s lives more hardship and so on.