下げ田でん

noun

worn-out rice field; exhausted paddy

Refers to a rice paddy that has become unproductive due to overuse or poor soil. A somewhat technical or agricultural term.

• その地ち域いきでは、下げ田でんを再さい生せいさせるための土ど壌じょう改かい良りょうが行おこなわれている。

  In that area, soil improvement is being carried out to restore worn-out rice paddies.