Crop production database of Japan

1. IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

Name	Crop production database of Japan
Edition	1.0
Metadata Identifier	GRENE_ei_EcoBiodiv_Crop_Production20230727092330-en

2. CONTACT

2.1 CONTACT on DATASET

Name	Michio Oguro
Organization	Tohoku University
E-mail	mogu@biology.tohoku.ac.jp

Name	Tohru Nakashizuka
Organization	Tohoku University
E-mail	toron@m.tohoku.ac.jp

2.2 CONTACT on PROJECT

3. DOCUMENT AUTHOR

Name	Michio Oguro
Organization	Tohoku University
E-mail	mogu@biology.tohoku.ac.jp

4. DATASET CREATOR

Name	Michio Oguro
Organization	Tohoku University

Name	Tohru Nakashizuka
Organization	Tohoku University

Name	Hisatomo Taki
Organization	Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute

Name	Masahiro Aiba
Organization	Tohoku University

Name	Takehiro Sasaki
Organization	Chiba University

Name	Uno Masahito
Organization	Tohoku University

5. DATE OF THIS DOCUMENT

2023-07-27

6. DATE OF DATASET

creation : 2014-12-13

7. DATASET OVERVIEW

7.1 Abstract

Historical crop production database compiled from the database provided by Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. For the details of data provision and term of use, please contact us by e-mail.

7.2 Topic Category(ISO19139)

farming

7.3 Temporal Extent

Begin Date	1993-01-01
End Date	Under Continuation

7.4 Geographic Bounding Box

North bound latitude	45.55722
West bound longitude	122.9336
Eastbound longitude	153.9864
South bound latitude	20.42528

7.5 Grid

7.6 Geographic Description

7.7 Keywords

7.7.1 Keywords on Dataset

Keyword Type	Keyword	Keyword thesaurus Name
theme	Agriculture	GEOSS
theme	Agriculture > Agricultural Plant Science > Crop/Plant Yields	GCMD_science
theme	BIOGEOSCIENCES > Agricultural systems	AGU
theme	Crop Yield	GEO_COP
place	Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan	Country

7.7.2 Keywords on Project

7.8 Online Resource

Data source : http://www.maff.go.jp/j/tokei/kouhyou/sakumotu/

7.9 Data Environmental Information

7.10 Distribution Information

name	version	specification
Text file	N/A	CSV

8. DATA PROCESSING

8.1 Data Processing (1)

8.1.1 General Explanation of the data producer's knowledge about the lineage of a dataset

From statistics provided by Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, crop name, prefecture code, prefecture name, municipality code, municipality name, year, crop acreage, and crop yield data were extracted and merged into one file.

8.1.2 Data Source

Data Source Citation Name	Description of derived parameters and processing techniques used