「総自由化体制」下の日本農業 : 農業構造再編の方向(大会報告・共通論題 : WTO体制と日本農業-農業・農政の世界的再編との関連で)
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It is not a short time since Japanese agriculture was said to be facing a crisis. This paper aims at studying how Japanese agricultural policy is being reformed under the agreement on agriculture of the GATT Uruguay Round and how Japanese agriculture will change under new surroundings, new domestic agricultural policy and WTO. I studies three subjects concretely. The first is changing the structure of Japanese agriculture after the late 1980s for explaining the actual state of agricultural crisis. The next one is the details of agricultural policy reform. The last is that new policy will be able to solve the crisis of Japanese agriculture or not. The structure of Japanese agriculture has changed a great deal since the late 1980s. The rate of decrease of farm household has risen and large farms have increased. But on the other hand, the farmland which is not cultivated has increased very much and the rate of decrease of farmland rises. Farmers who bear Japanese agriculture become older and older every year, but the young who want to be engaged in agriculture are few. Moreover the production index of agriculture has declined since 1986. After all, the increase of large farms arises, bringing the reduction of agricultural product. At present, Japanese agricultural policy reform is being carried out in accordance with the ideas of deregulation and introduction of market mechanism under the influence of the Uruguay Round. Its main aim is to raise agricultural enterprises with the competitive power in international markets. The new policy thinks that the enlarging farms is the most important for that purpose. I doubt whether such policy will be able to overcome the present crisis of Japanese agriculture. Conversely, I think that the new policy will reduce the agricultural product more. We can not overcome the agricultural crisis by only the introduction of market mechanism. It is indispensable to examine the agreement on agriculture of Uruguay Round and establish the land and price policy for that purpose.
- 政治経済学・経済史学会の論文
- 1997-04-20