Japan's Rice Problem (eBook)

Masayuki Ogawa (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
408 Seiten
CAB INTERNATIONAL (Verlag)
978-1-80062-709-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Japan produces more rice than its population now eats, and struggles to export the surpluses. This book describes the history behind this problem and describes how Japan will deal with it in the future.

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In recent years there has been much debate in Japan over rice, which is considered the "staple food" of the Japanese people. Certain agricultural policies and traditional attitudes, the aging of farming communities and the lack of successors have become major problems, leading to the overproduction of rice and falling prices. Agricultural policy has been forced to respond to these problems.

This book summarizes the changing relationship between the Japanese people and rice over the past half century, pointing out four turning points. The book then discusses in detail the "rice paddy glut" as the most recent rice problem in Japan. The book also points out that a "fifth tipping point " will come in the near future, when there will be an excess of farmland, and suggests ways to deal with this problem.

Similar problems could be on the horizon in the future for developing countries that have invested heavily in increasing rice production.

Autor

Masayuki Ogawa is assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Utsunomiya University, Japan and in the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. He is a visiting scholar at the Nippon Agricultural Research Institute, and a researcher at the Agricultural Policy Research Committee, Inc (NOHSEI CHOHSA IINKAI), Japan.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.8.2025
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: crop over-production • food surpluses • Japanese agricultural policy • japanese agriculture • Japanese diet changes • Japanese rice farming • Japanese rice industry • land use in Japan • rice commodity economics • Rice Consumption • Rice paddies
• ISBN-10: 1-80062-709-2 / 1800627092
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80062-709-3 / 9781800627093