(8) Agricultural regions nationwide

Agricultural region	Prefecture	Agricultural region	Prefecture
Hokkaido	Hokkaido	Kinki	Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama
Tohoku	Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima	Chugoku Sanin Sanyo	Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi
Hokuriku	Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui	Shikoku	Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kochi
Kanto/Tosan	Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma	Kyushu	Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki,
Northern Kanto	Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo,	Northern Kyushu	Kumamoto, Oita
Southern Kanto	Kanagawa	Southern Kyushu	Miyazaki, Kagoshima
Tosan	Yamanashi, Nagano
Tokai	Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie	Okinawa	Okinawa

2. Basic Terminology

AFFrinnovation	AFFrinnovation means initiatives for agriculture, forestry and fisheries operators to voluntarily cooperate with others to comprehensively and integrally promote agriculture, forestry and fisheries as the primary industry, manufacturing as the secondary industry and retailing as the tertiary industry to utilize regional resources for producing new added value.
Agricultural irrigation facilities	These facilities are roughly divided into two types -- irrigation facilities for providing irrigation water for farmlands and sewerage facilities for discharging surplus surface and soil water at farmlands. Irrigation facilities include dams and other water storage facilities, water intake facilities such as weirs, drains, pumping facilities, circular tank diversion works, farm ponds and other water supply and distribution facilities. Sewerage facilities include drainage canals and drainage pump stations. In addition, there are water control facilities to monitor, control and operate irrigation and sewerage facilities.
Agricultural producers' cooperative corporation	According to the Agricultural Cooperative Act, more than three farmers are necessary to establish such as corporation. These corporations are meant to facilitate cooperation in agricultural production between cooperative members and increase common profit. There are two types of these corporations. One aims to establish communal facilities for equipment and resources or promote communalization of agricultural operations, and the other aims to manage a corporation agricultural business such as farming. Both are called agricultural producers' cooperative corporations.
Agricultural production legal person (or corporation)	This is a legal person that can acquire rights to farmland and satisfy all of the following requirements: (1) Requirements for incorporation (a stock corporation [not a publicly traded company], a membership company or agricultural producer's cooperative corporation), (2) Requirements for business operations (main business is farming), (3) Requirements for members of the corporation (farming people account for at least three quarters of the voting rights), (4) Requirements for executives (the majority of executives are engaged in farming full time).
Biomass	Biomass means organic resources of flora and fauna origin, excluding fossil resources. Biomass is made by organisms that create organic matter from inorganic water and CO2 through photosynthesis using solar energy falling on the earth. This type of resources is renewable throughout its life cycle as long as there are organisms and solar energy.
Calorie supply (Calorie intake)	Calorie supply refers to the total amount of calories from food that is supplied to the public, and calorie intake refers to the total amount of calories actually consumed by the public. As a rule, the value for calorie supply is taken from the Food Balance Sheet issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, while the value for calorie intake is taken from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey issued by the Ministry of Health, Labor