A investigation of opinions and demands of new farming applicants of Japan using concept graph in the questionnaire survey

Agriculture is important field in Japan, but number of new farmer decreases or is flat in recent years. It is necessary for the agricultural field in Japan to increase new farmers. To solve the problem, it is important to investigate opinions and demands of new agricultural applicants. We investigated attitudes and interests in results of questionnaire surveys for the applicants. And we also investigate effectiveness of a method to extract and visualize these kinds of information contained in the questionnaire using concept graph.