Vol. 84, No. 6 (Published on 1st, November. 2022)

CONTENTS

ESSAY

　S. TOJO…363

SUMMARY OF AWARD PAPERS

　K. IWABUCHI：Summary of Paper Received 58th JSAM Academic Award…365

　K. NAKANO：Summary of Paper Received 58th JSAM Academic Award…367

　E. KURIHARA, K. YAMASHITA, J. NISHIKAWA, K. HAYASHI, T. TODA, H. TAMURA, T. KOBAYASHI, K. HIYOSHI：Summary of Paper Received 46th JSAM Mori Technical Award…368

　Y. AOYAGI：Summary of Paper Received 21th JSAM Junior Academic Award…370

　D. HIROTA, Y. UEKA, S. OHHATA, Y. DOI, S. ARIMA, M. MATSUI：Summary of Paper Received 13th JSAM Paper Award (Reserch Paper)…372

　T. OHTA, M. OHNISHI, T. YOSHIDA, T. MIZUKAMI, M. MIYAZAKI, S. SUMIHARA, K. YUASA, K. AZUMA, T. OGAWARA, T. SHIMADA：Summary of Paper Received 13th JSAM Paper Award (Technical Paper)…374

SPECIAL EDITION

Agricultural and Food Machinery in Japan 2022

Editor：M. TOMITA

　M. KOMIYA：Trend of Agricultural Mechanization…378

　H. WATANABE：Tractor and Implement…384

　M. KUBOTSU：Rice Transplanter and Direct Seeder…393

　M. YOSHIDA：Plant Protecting and Weed Control Machinery…398

　M. SAITO：Combine Harvester…403

　T. SAKAGAITO：Machinery for Vegetable Cultivation…409

　K. SEKIGUCHI：Machinery for Animal Husbandry…415

　Y. HASHIMOTO, K. GOTO：Machinery for Grain Post Harvest and Circulation…420

　N. MURAKAMI：IT and Mechatronics for the Agricultural Machinery…425

TECHNO-TOPICS

Y. AKIYAMA, R. FUJIWARA：Development of a Method to Predict Distribution and Amount of Legume in Grass-Legume Mixed Swards…429

PAPER (Article)

RESEARCH PAPER R. YAMADA, S. INOKURA, T. ARAKI：Freezing Characteristics of Tea Leaves with Different Water Content during Tea Manufacturing…447 　abstracts