Editing Chiba Prefecture (section)

===Agriculture===
[[File:Working in the Rice Paddies in May.jpg|right|thumb|Rice production, Sawara, [[Katori, Chiba|Katori]]]]
The prefecture also boasts Japan's overall second-highest agricultural output. Among all the prefectures, only [[Hokkaido]] produces more agricultural products, and Chiba leads Hokkaido in vegetable production.{{Citation needed|date=August 2008}} [[Peanut]]s are considered a specialty product of Chiba: 78% of the country's peanuts are produced in the prefecture.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chiba |first1=Chiba Prefecture |title=Chiba-ken Agricultural statistics |url=https://japancrops.com/en/prefectures/chiba/ |website=www.japancrops.com |access-date=19 May 2022}}</ref>

Chiba Prefecture leads the nation in the production of several vegetables, including [[carrot]]s; [[cabbage]]; [[daikon]] [[radish]]; ''negi'', the ubiquitous Japanese [[cultivar]] of the [[Welsh onion]]; [[loquat]]; [[Pyrus pyrifolia|nashi]], the Japanese cultivar of the [[pear]], which has a two hundred-year history of cultivation in the prefecture; [[tomato]]es; and [[spinach]]<ref name="chiba-food">{{Cite web |url=http://www.chiba-tour.jp/html/food-vegetables_en.html |title=Welcome to Chiba - Foods |publisher=Chiba Prefectural Government |access-date=2012-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831220621/http://www.chiba-tour.jp/html/food-vegetables_en.html |archive-date=2012-08-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="trends">{{cite web | url = http://web-japan.org/trends/07_food/jfd071204.html | title = Trends in Japan: Chiba Offers Delicacies From Land And Sea | date = 4 December 2007 | publisher = Web Japan | access-date  = 2012-04-26}}</ref> It is the nation's second largest producer of [[maize|corn]].<ref name="chiba-food"/> [[Rice]] is also grown, and [[seaweed]], specifically ''[[nori]]'', is harvested in large quantities from Tokyo Bay.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.city.ichikawa.lg.jp/english/cityprofile/0027.html |title=Ichikawa Produces Nori (Laver Seaweed) |publisher=Ichikawa City |date=2009-11-25 |access-date=2012-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214050458/http://www.city.ichikawa.lg.jp/english/cityprofile/0027.html |archive-date=2012-02-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref>