The structure of rice production in Japan and Taiwan

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 387-400

  Fujiki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a BANK OF JAPAN   (Japan)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; RICE;

JAPAN; TAIWAN;

EID: 0032902914     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/452406     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Yujiro Hayami and Toshihiko Kawagoe, "Farm Mechanization, Scale Economies, and Structural Change," in The Agricultural Development of Japan, ed. Yujiro Hayami and Saburo Yamada (Tokyo: Tokyo University Press, 1991).
2. Yoshimi Kuroda, "Effects of R & E Activities on Rice Production in Taiwan, 1976-1993," Taiwanese Agricultural Economic Review 3, no. 1 (December 1997): 97-145.
3. Russell King, Land Reform (London: G. Bell, 1977).
4. So far, I have not been able to find a comprehensive study that compares the quality of machines used in those two economies. However, historically it is well known that most Taiwanese farm machines were imported from Japan. See Francesca Bray, The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986), esp. p. 59.
5. Yu-kang Mao, "Structure and Change in the Agriculture of Taiwan," in Agricultural Policy and U.S.-Taiwan Trade, ed. D. Gale Johnson and Chiming Hou (Washington, D.C.: AEI, 1993).
6. Ibid., esp. pp. 25-27.
7. Yu-kang Mao and Chaw-hisa Tu, "Current Agricultural Problems and Policies of Taiwan," in Johnson and Hou, eds.
8. King, esp. p. 217.
9. Masayoshi Honma, Nougyo-Mondai no Seiji-Keizaigaku (The political economy of agriculture) (Tokyo: Nippon Keizai Shinbunsya, 1994). Chapter 6 of this book contains a brief review of Japanese agricultural policy.
10. Hayami and Kawagoe (n. 1 above).
11. Ibid.
12. Taiwanese primary costs were deflated by the price index of payments made by farmers for agricultural production inputs, and Japanese primary costs were deflated by the price index of rice.
13. To compute the group mean for each farm size group, only the total sample size is available in Koine oyobi Mugirui no Seisanhi (Survey of rice production costs), Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (Tokyo, 1985-91). However, since the average data on farm size for the Non-Hokkaido region and the Hokkaido region are available, I can estimate the sample size of the Non-Hokkaido region farms by solving simple linear programming.
14. Hayami and Kawagoe.
15. Kuroda (n. 2 above).
16. Hayami and Kawagoe.
17. See Nougyouseisansoshiki no Seisanhi (Survey of agricultural production costs), Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (Tokyo, 1991-94).