2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Study for overseas expansion of multinational seed companies and impacts of it to agricultural productivity
| Project/Area Number |
23780222
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Agro-economics
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUDA Hirotaka 東京大学, 大学院・新領域創成科学研究科, 特任准教授 (50451901)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 国際農業 |
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| Research Abstract |
Development of seeds including rice varieties in Indonesia is done by small number of companies because of scale economy. In addition, after introducing a certification system to engage for quality of seeds, oligopolization in seed industry in Indonesia has been found since the number of companies which may respond to the system is limited. It is found from household survey that farmers who may take a risk plant rather high yield rice varieties with large standard deviation of yield and farmers who may attainhigher yield prefer to combine several varieties to respond to variation of yield because of climate change, insect damage and volatility in market.
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