Japan

Japan’s Reformed Gentan Rice Program Viewed as too late by Farmers

Yutsai Huang
Yutsai Huang Director, Food and Fertilizer Technology Center   For several decades now, Japan government’s mandatory quota-based program called “gentan” (減反)or paddy reduction, has been designed to keep rice prices artificially high. Critics say the program has long...
Country: Japan Topic: Trade liberalization and countermeasures
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Agricultural Commissions in Japan

Yoshihisa Godo
Yoshihisa Godo Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan   In Japan, the Agricultural Commission is a unique administrative organization system that manages various agricultural land issues at the local level. In spite of its importance, only a few English-language studies have...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural land policies
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Major Shift of Japanese Rice Policy

Chan-Ik Chun
Chan-Ik Chun Agricultural Economist of FFTC   The Japanese government said on November 26 it will terminate the decades-old “gentan (減反)” rice production adjustment system (rice production quota system) as early as fiscal 2018. Japan has begun the policy since 1970. The decision...
Country: Japan Topic: Agriculture
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Introduction of School Lunch Program in Japan and Korea

Yutsai Huang
Yutsai Huang, Ph.D. Director, Food and Fertilizer Technology Center   School lunches were extended to all elementary schools in Japan in 1952, and with the enactment of the school lunch law, to junior high schools in 1954. Today, 99% of elementary school students and 82% of junior high...
Country: Japan Topic: Food security and safety
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Agro-Meteorological Database for Climate-Smart Rice Production

Mayumi Yoshimoto, Motoki Nishimori, Toshihiro Hasegawa, Tsuneo Kuwagata, Yasushi Ishigooka
Tsuneo Kuwagata, Mayumi Yoshimoto, Yasushi Ishigooka, Toshihiro Hasegawa, and Motoki Nishimori National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan E-mail: kuwa@affrc.go.jp   Rice productivity and quality in Japan is being impacted by global warming and climate...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural science policies
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