Economic Analysis of the transfer and incidents concerning policies of the rice acreage reduction and direct payments

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24580318
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Agro-economics
Research Institution	Gifu University
Principal Investigator	ARAHATA Katsumi 岐阜大学, 応用生物科学部, 教授 (90293547)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help	¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Keywords	米生産調整 / 直接支払 / 補助金の転嫁と帰着 / 補助金 / 転嫁と帰着 / 国際研究者交流、アメリカ / 直接支払い / 補助金の受益と帰着 / デカップリング
Outline of Final Research Achievements	All benefits from farm policies do not entirely accrue to farmers. Some would be transfered to landlords, while others would be to suppliers and some of them would be fixed as incidents to those. The purpose of the present research is to profoundly examine these relationships and calculate quantitatively. This research was conducted under the collaborative projects with Barrett Kirwan, associate professor at the University of Illinois, whose innovative study clarified that 25% of direct payments in the U.S. may be brought about as incidents to land owners. It is an outstanding academic contribution of this study that such ratio in Japan may tentatively be calculated to be 40%. Even so, it depends upon terms of contracts between farmers and land owners. Further studies will be needed in order to clarify real incidents.