畑作|はたさくhatasaku[0]heiban (flat)

1. noundry field farming; dry field crop

• Antonym稲作いなさくNeutralNeutral term for growing rice, mainly in paddies but also upland rice in dry fields; broadly opposite to 「畑作」, which grows wheat, beans and vegetables in dry fields.
• Antonym水田作WrittenWritten/formal prose term for paddy-field cultivation; the exact opposite of 「畑作」, which grows crops in dry fields.

Use 「畑作」 for growing wheat, beans and vegetables in unirrigated dry fields; use 「稲作」 for rice, mainly in paddy fields. They are the two major types of farming, but upland rice counts as both.

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1. 水みずを引ひかない畑はたけで、穀物こくもつや野菜やさいなどを育そだてる農業のうぎょう。