Following amendments to food supply legislation in 2004, the distribution of rice has become increasingly market driven due to the ability of farmers and agricultural co-operatives to sell their produce directly to the food service industry. This flexibility allows agricultural co-operatives to...

The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively analyze trade distortion effects of average crop revenue election payment (ACRE) under the 2008 U.S. Farm Bill. A newly developed imperfectly competitive spatial equilibrium model includes the ACRE, in addition to Lerner indices and several kinds of...

The neo-liberalistic restructuring policy of the coalition government of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Buddhist Komeito for paddy and rice farming for the last years, which didn't reflect actual small family farming structures, has suffered a setback by a counterattack of the political...

In expectation of growing cheese consumption, natural cheese production is being increased to reduce surplus milk and create high added value in raw milk. Other studies found positive trends in cheese consumption. However, those studies neither clarified recent trends, nor distinguished natural...

In this paper, I take up the following nine points: 1）The Japanese policy of agricultural protection should be converted from market price support to direct payment. 2）The border protection policy provided by the high tariff rate for rice should be converted per the WTO Doha round in order...

Since the 1980s staple food consumption has fallen and feed consumption and industrial consumption have increased in the China corn market. Till 2007 staple food consumption has fallen to 10% and feed consumption has increased to 65% of total corn consumption, and the rest of corn consumption...

Majority of the studies on low-wage levels in Tohoku, Japan have been focusing on the analysis of part-time non-farming jobs for males. On the other hand, some former studies have analyzed the full-time non-farming jobs for males in Tohoku and also indicate low-wage levels in these cases. The...

Recent price hikes in the world food market have renewed the food security concerns of many Japanese who had long been anxious about the country's falling food self-sufficiency rates and the declining domestic agricultural sector. This paper first reviews recent turmoil in the world food market...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the market structure of the corn exporting industry in the U.S. and the price transmission from corn cash prices at the export ports in the U.S. Gulf to CIF prices at the import ports in Japan. Based on the arguments of Asymmetric...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the fact that an increase in risk exposure gives negative effects on the expansion of the calf-raising farm size by using a dynamic econometric model. It is empirically known that the calf-raising farms facing the risk of calf price fluctuation tend...