Rice Policy Research Articles

Examination of the 'Rice Policy Reform' as a Price and Income Program

Examination of the 'Rice Policy Reform' as a Price and Income Program

Issues of Supply-Dmand Adjustment under the Rice policy Reform

Issues of Supply-Dmand Adjustment under the Rice policy Reform

Estimating statistical properties of political economic decisions

Revelation of criteria implicit in setting policy is addressed in a political economic framework that includes identification and estimation of unknown parameters in the presence of multiple sources of uncertainty. Policy formation is viewed as an optimization process under which the government maximizes a criterion function subject to market constraints. A method for estimating political criterion function weights and their associated standard errors over multiple time periods is presented. The approach is illustrated with an empirical example from Japanese rice and wheat trade policy.

Crop failure, price regulation, and emergency imports of Japan's rice sector in 1993

In 1993, an extraordinarily cool summer in Japan brought about low rice yields, which caused considerable disturbances to the rice markets. Japan imported a large amount of rice as an emergency measure. Two controversies about Japan's rice policies were raised, particularly in that period. The first centred on the effectiveness of the price regulation policies in stabilizing rice prices and farmers’ incomes. The second involved the newspapers’ arguments that the emergency imports harmed other countries, especially developing countries. These controversies were examined with a world trade computable general equilibrium model.

The Directions of Rice Marketing under the New Rice Policy(The Directions of Rice Marketing and Growing Districts under the Rice Policy Reform,Symposium Reports at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society)

The Directions of Rice Marketing under the New Rice Policy(The Directions of Rice Marketing and Growing Districts under the Rice Policy Reform,Symposium Reports at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society)

The Rice Reform Strategy of Growing Districts in Kyushu (The Directions of Rice Marketing and Growing Districts under the Rice Policy Reform,Symposium Reports at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society)

The Rice Reform Strategy of Growing Districts in Kyushu (The Directions of Rice Marketing and Growing Districts under the Rice Policy Reform,Symposium Reports at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society)

The Rice Reform Strategy of Growing Districts in Niigata Prefecture(The Directions of Rice Marketing and Growing Districts under the Rice Policy Reform,Symposium Reports at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society)

The Rice Reform Strategy of Growing Districts in Niigata Prefecture(The Directions of Rice Marketing and Growing Districts under the Rice Policy Reform,Symposium Reports at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society)

Bibliographical Introduction of the Chairpersons(The Directions of Rice Marketing and Growing Districts under the Rice Policy Reform,Symposium Reports at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society)

Bibliographical Introduction of the Chairpersons(The Directions of Rice Marketing and Growing Districts under the Rice Policy Reform,Symposium Reports at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society)

The Rice Reform Strategy of Growing Districts in Akita Prefecture(The Directions of Rice Marketing and Growing Districts under the Rice Policy Reform,Symposium Reports at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society)

The Rice Reform Strategy of Growing Districts in Akita Prefecture(The Directions of Rice Marketing and Growing Districts under the Rice Policy Reform,Symposium Reports at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society)

The Rice Business of JA Group under the Rice Policy Reform(The Directions of Rice Marketing and Growing Districts under the Rice Policy Reform,Symposium Reports at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society)

The Rice Business of JA Group under the Rice Policy Reform(The Directions of Rice Marketing and Growing Districts under the Rice Policy Reform,Symposium Reports at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society)

『米政策改革大綱と山口県における21世紀型むらづくり』解題と要約

『米政策改革大綱と山口県における21世紀型むらづくり』解題と要約

The Influence of Commodity Programs on Acreage Response to Market Price: With an Illustration Concerning Rice Policy in the United States

Farm programs influence the parameters of typically estimated supply functions. We develop and apply an approach that uses detailed information about farm program incentives and constraints to identify underlying structural acreage response parameters when the data reflect behavior under complex government commodity programs. We illustrate the approach with data on rice acreage response to market price in the United States. For U.S. rice, estimates that fail to appropriately incorporate the program rules under which market data were generated are three to four times smaller than the structural parameters that are useful for most policy analysis or projections under alternative policies.

Vietnam's Rice Policy: Recent Reforms and Future Opportunities

The present paper examines the economic consequences of the most recent reform of Vietnam's rice policy, the removal of the rice‐export quota. The reform is analyzed in light of domestic policy barriers, such as restrictions on cross‐sectoral land mobility, as well as international policy barriers, such as distortions introduced by preferential trade agreements. The analysis expands and amends a global computable general equilibrium model to represent these features. The analysis shows that the export quota has been a very restrictive policy tool that has kept Vietnamese rice production and exports well below potential. Both the domestic and international policy constraints contribute to this situation.

Policy Analysis of the Liberalisation of the Rice Market in Japan

The Japanese rice market is an extreme example of national market protection in an industrialised country. As=a consequence of these protectionist policies, domestic prices average alrnost 4 times the world market price for comparable rice qualities. This paper discusses the obstacles on the way to political reform and to more openness of the rice trade. With the framework of a partial equilibriuin model we quantify the benefits that can be expected by extensive trade liberalisation and show that the Japanese consum~r and rice producers in developing countries largely carry the burden of the current system that only conserves the highly inefficient Japanese rice farrning structure. Our analysis shows that the curren~ policies are economically not the best means to address the objectives targeted by the neiv dgriculttiral of Japan that promotes'inainly food security, multifunctional aspects of agriculture and the parity of rural- urban incotrie distribution. On the contrary, the Japanese rice policy appears to use these arguments only as pretence to justify its protectionist interventions. As an alternatiire, we develop･an example for the

Study of the Structure of Agricultural Production as Legal Person in Paddy Field Farming Systems and Consideration of Reconstituting Rice Policy

Study of the Structure of Agricultural Production as Legal Person in Paddy Field Farming Systems and Consideration of Reconstituting Rice Policy

Grain of truth.

Grain of truth.

Rice Marketing by Agricultural Cooperative and the Response of Rice Farmers under the New Rice Policy in Korea : A Case Study of the Okchon Agricultural Cooperative and the Rice Farmers in Hosanri Village of Haenamgun Chollanamdo

Rice Marketing by Agricultural Cooperative and the Response of Rice Farmers under the New Rice Policy in Korea : A Case Study of the Okchon Agricultural Cooperative and the Rice Farmers in Hosanri Village of Haenamgun Chollanamdo

Domestic support and the WTO negotiations

In their attempt to maximise trade benefits, agricultural trade negotiators must allocate scarce resources and consider trade‐offs across issues such as liberalising foreign border measures or reducing foreign domestic subsidies. Analysis and examples support the notion that more liberalisation will be achieved in the new WTO round by emphasis on lowering border barriers and export subsidies rather than attempting to discipline domestic farm subsidies directly. Analyses of EU grain policy, Korean rice policy and US sugar policy show how reduced export subsidy or more import access have substantial trade benefits, even if farmers are compensated with payments or price supports.

Restructuring Rice production under the New Rice Policy

Restructuring Rice production under the New Rice Policy

Market impacts of Japanese rice policies with and without supply control

An imperfect competition model for the Japanese rice market is developed to examine the impact of the current supply control policy used in Japan. The model simulates farm revenues with and without the current Acreage Reduction Program (ARP). The results indicate that the current ARP enhances farmers' revenue by 600 to 1,000 billion yen compared with the no supply control policy. Consequently, contrary to popular negative opinion regarding the ARP, rice farmers are benefiting from the current ARP. The market impacts of a loan rate system without the ARP are also investigated. The results indicate that if farmers' marketing organizations have some market power to restrict sales through diverting sales to the government, then a loan rate system would result in a relatively high price for farmers accompanied by modest government costs. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.