Glossary for Terms 785Persons engaged This includes business proprietor, family members of business proprietor without pay (family members working full time without receiving salaries or wages), and employees (regular employees, temporary employees, and family members who work and receive salaries or wages). Bankruptcy Bankruptcy refers to any of the following cases in which a company is experiencing difficulties in its management and that can no longer discharge liabilities it must pay off: (1) suspension of business transactions with banks, (2) voluntary liquidation (when the representative approves the bankruptcy), (3) applying for the commencement of corporate rehabilitation proceedings with the court, (4) applying for the commencement of civil rehabilitation proceedings with the court, (5) applying for the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings with the court, and (6) applying for the commencement of special liquidation with the court. With regard to (3) through (6), in the case of a petition by a third party (creditor), bankruptcy occurs at the time when the commencement of the procedure is decided. Subsidiary company A company in which a certain company (parent company) owns more than 50 percent of the voting rights. It includes a company in which the subsidiary, or the parent company and the subsidiary combined, own more than 50 percent of the voting rights (deemed subsidiary) and a company practically controlled by the subsidiary or jointly by the parent company and the subsidiary, even in the case they own only 50 percent or less of the voting rights. Affiliated company A company in which a certain company (parent company) directly owns no less than 20 percent but no more than 50 percent of the voting rights. (c) Cultivated area for fruit trees: 10 ares, (d) Cultivated area for open-field flowers: 10 ares, (e) Cultivated area for greenhouse grown flowers: 250 square metres, (f) Number of Milking cows: one head, (g) Number of Fattening cattle: one head, (h) Number of Pigs: 15 heads, (i) Number of Hens: 150 birds, (j) Number of Broiler chickens shipped each year: 1,000 birds, (k) Others: Total sales of farm products equivalent to 500,000 yen or more during the one-year period prior to the survey date. (3) Farming operating under a consignment agreement. Individual management entities The management entities that operate as individuals (households). It does not include management entities that are incorporated and operate their own business. Business management entity The individual management entity whose main income is from farming (at least 50% of the household income is agricultural income) with one or more household member younger than 65 who were engaged in farming operated by the household for at least 60 days during the one-year period prior to the survey date. Semi-business management entity The individual management entity whose main income is from non-farming sources (less than 50% of the household income is agricultural income) with one or more household member younger than 65 who were engaged in farming operated by the household for at least 60 days during the one-year period prior to the survey date. Side business management entity The individual management entity with no household members younger than 65 who were engaged in farming operated by the household for at least 60 days during the one-year period prior to the survey date. Persons engaged in farming Household members 15 years old and over who are engaged in self-employed farming for one day or more per year. Core persons mainly engaged in farming The household member aged 15 or older who are usually mainly engaged in farming operated by the household as a job. Commercial farm households It means a farm household with cultivated land under management of 30 ares and over or with annual sales of agricultural products amounting to 500,000 yen and over in the year prior to the survey date. Non-commercial farm household It means a farm household other than Commercial farm household. Cultivated land Cultivated land refers to land for the cultivation of farm crops, including attached dikes. Proper fields Refers to land used directly for the cultivation of farm crops. Attached dikes Refers to a part of cultivated land mainly needed for the maintenance of proper fields. It refers to a ridge of earth between fields, and in the case of a rice field, it is used as a flood-control facility. Planted area (paddy field rice and upland rice, wheat and barley, soybean, buckwheat, sweet potato, forage crop, industrial crops) Productions refers to the amount of products that are harvested and stored (meaning kept or sold after harvest and placed in storage warehouses, etc.) and meet or exceed certain standards (quality/standards). Production (paddy field rice and upland rice, wheat and barley, soybean, buckwheat, sweet potato, forage crop, industrial crops) The planted area refers to the area where non-perennial crops including paddy rice, wheat and barley that are harvested within about one year from seeding or planting and not for multi-year harvest are planted. If crops are grown on a ridge, the area used is estimated and recorded as the planted area. Fruited area Fruited area refers to the area of the cultivated area that the producer has fruited in order to harvest annual fruit. Production (fruit and nuts) The weight of the harvested material that meets the criteria for distribution for raw food or processing. 8 Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Agriculture management entities Those who produce agricultural products or entrusted to do agricultural, using farming area or livestock as specified below. (1) Farming in which the cultivated land under management is at least 30 ares. (2) Farms where the planted or cultivated area for agricultural products, the number of feeding livestock or shipped poultry, as well as the size of other operations meet at least the following overall standards for agriculture and forestry management entities. (a) Planted area for open-field vegetables: 15 ares, (b) Cultivated area for greenhouse grown vegetables: 350 square metres,