Rice Sector Policies in Japan

Hisao Fukuda , John Dyck , and Jim Stout

United States Department of Agriculture

关键词: Japan;    rice;    policies;    domestic support;    trade;    trade liberalization;    state trading;    quota;    PSE;    producer support estimate;    AMS;    aggregate measurement of support;   

RP-ID  :  RCS-0303-01

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: United States Department of Agriculture Publications

【 摘 要 】

This report provides a detailed description and analysis of policies used by Japan to support its rice producers. Domestic policies include a program offering compensation to farmers when market prices fall below specified targets, subsidized hazard insurance, and subsidies to increase the size of farm operations. At the border, a tariff-rate quota is administered by a government state-trading enterprise, which can apply markups to imported rice prices when it sells the rice inside Japan. To counter overproduction of rice, the government funds a diversion program that pays farmers to plant other crops on a third of the rice paddies. If Japan's policies were liberalized, production and/or prices of japonica rice outside Japan would rise, while prices would fall in Japan.