The Study on the Cooperation between Rice and Livestock Farms by Promoting Forage Rice Production under Supply Adjustment Policy

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23580293
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Agro-economics
• Research Institution: Takasaki City University of Economics
• Principal Investigator: MIYATA Tsuyoshi 高崎経済大学, 地域政策学部, 准教授 (70345180)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TANIGUCHI Nobukazu 東京農業大学, 教授 (20115596) ; YURUGI Takao 東京大学, 大学院農学生命科学研究科, 准教授 (30220536)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 農業者戸別所得補償制度 / 飼料用米の単収の低下要因 / 肥料や農薬、労働の投入低下 / 主食用米の後の作業 / 収量の低い生産者の収益性の高さ / 増産のインセンティブ / 輸入飼料穀物との代替可能性 / 資源循環型畜産への転換の可能性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study was performed under the following process. First, research interviews on ‘the newly demanded rice’ from the view of both cultivation and livestock farming in agricultural fields were accumulated. Second, a kind of gap between the policy laws and the farming activities was revealed through the analyses on the above interviews. Third, practical improvements which are consistent with present policies were suggested by this study from academic viewpoints.
The most serious reason why the productivity of rice feeds made little progress was speculated to be the low input levels of fertilizers or pesticides. Moreover, the analysis suggested that the labor inputs for feed rice were also in low level where they were planted in the least fertile farmlands. And the works for feed rice were left after the main farming works for eating rice. We inferred that the rice farms introduced the feed rice crop in order to acquire the profits which were fully subsidized.

Free Research Field

社会経済農学