Livelihood in the southern Yamashiro area

　Villages in the southern part of the Yamashiro region have been engaged in intensive farming that combines rice cultivation with commercial crops such as fruit tree cultivation, and has been shipping them to urban markets.
In the southern part of the Yamashiro region, which has many mountains and few rice paddies, the basic livelihood was through intensive cultivation of commercial crops such as tea and cotton.
　Regarding tea, the Yamashiro region has been known throughout the country for a long time, but in modern times exports have become popular and the mechanization of tea production has progressed.
　It can be said that what made this way of living possible is largely the geographical condition of being relatively close to the consumer markets of the cities of Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara.Furthermore, the Kizugawa Waterway, which connected Kasagi to Fushimi in one day, played a major role in making it possible to make a living with an urban market in mind even in the upper reaches of the Kizugawa River, which was not in the suburbs.