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Macroeconomic Policy for Rice Agriculture in Japan

Resuscitation in the Liberalized Competitive Market

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  • Apr 2025

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Authors:
  1. Hirotada Kohno

    1. The University of Tsukuba, Setagaya-ku, Japan

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  • Explains how complicated problems such as crop rotation can be formulated with the mixed-integer dynamic optimization model, which is useful for practitioners
  • Demonstrates that a multi-objective programming model solves contradictory multi-objectives, e.g., the equilibrium of afforestation and deforestation
  • Argues that reduction of rice-field acreage should be abolished and that Japan should export rice in the mode of a competition-oriented market

Part of the book series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives (NFRSASIPER, volume 120)

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Keywords

  • crop rotation
  • doctrine of comparative advantages
  • dynamic programming models
  • macroeconomic policy of rice products
  • rice acreage
  • rice agriculture

About this book

This book focuses on a very important and still controversial topic in Japan, namely, whether a future exists for Japanese farmers, especially rice-producing farmers. Dealt with here is the prospect along with a personal view of the course that Japanese agriculture should follow, that is, a prescription for enriching the international competitiveness of the agricultural sector, especially rice production, in a more market-oriented economy. Toward restoration of Japanese agriculture, prescriptions are pursued from different aspects. One is the planting schedule of various farm products at the micro level such as the crop rotation system, derived from the mixed-integer dynamic programming model. Another is a macroeconomic policy to enhance the export of the restored 2 million tons of rice by the abolition of the policy of reducing rice acreage—a policy considered unreasonable by some. The path that agriculture in Japan should take has been argued by scholars and experts in related fields. However, no argument has been based on scientific and objective proof. Some applications of mixed-integer dynamic programming model are shown, which are very useful for policy makers as well as graduate students in the field of economic policy (esp. regional & dynamics) and dynamic agricultural planning (esp. planting & comprehensive management).

Authors and Affiliations

  • The University of Tsukuba, Setagaya-ku, Japan

    Hirotada Kohno

About the author

Hirotada Kohno, Emeritus Professor, The University of Tsukuba

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Macroeconomic Policy for Rice Agriculture in Japan

  • Book Subtitle: Resuscitation in the Liberalized Competitive Market

  • Authors: Hirotada Kohno

  • Series Title: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Japan KK, part of Springer Nature 2025

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55232-1Due: 14 May 2025

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55233-8Due: 14 May 2025

  • Series ISSN: 2199-5974

  • Series E-ISSN: 2199-5982

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 180

  • Number of Illustrations: 60 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

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