Census of Agriculture and Forestry 2020

The statistical unit for the Census of Agriculture and Forestry 2020 was the agriculture and forestry management entity (AFME), defined as the entity that produces agriculture or forestry products, or that is engaged in agriculture or forestry operations under consignment agreements.

The AFMEs were divided into:

• Agriculture management entities (AMEs)
• Forestry management entities (FME)

Among AMEs two types of entities were distinguished: individual management entities and organized management entities.

The following thresholds were established for the AFMEs:

• Holdings in which the cultivated land under management is over 30 ares (0.3 ha)
• Holdings above any of the following limits:
  1. Planted area for outdoor grown vegetables: 15 ares
  2. Cultivated area for greenhouse grown vegetables: 350 m2
  3. Cultivated area for fruit trees: 10 ares
  4. Cultivated area for outdoor green flowers: 10 ares
  5. Cultivated area for greenhouse grown flowers: 250 m2
  6. Number of milking cows: one head
  7. Number of fattening cattle: one head
  8. Number of pigs: 15 head
  9. Number of hens: 150 head
  10. Number of broiler chickens shipped each year: 1000 head
  11. Others: total sales of farm products equivalent to 500 000 yen or more during the one-year period up to the day before the survey period
• Holdings operating under a consignment agreement
• Holdings conducting forestry operations based on rights to carry out silviculture and deforesting (excluding acquisition for the sole purpose of deforesting standing trees and bamboo) for an area of forest land of 3 ha or more (hereinafter referred to as "owned forest land")
• Consigned forestation or production of raw materials or production of raw materials through the purchase of standing trees. For the production of raw materials, the use of the term is limited to those who produced over 200 m3 of material within one year prior to the date of the survey