い業国際化と熊本い業産地の構造的課題

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This paper is an investigation of the international competition between producing districts of rush and the causes of structual problems of rush industry in Kumamoto Prefecture. As of the year 2000, Japan had 2,890ha of land under rush cultivation. The following prefectures had more than 10ha of land dedicated to rush production: Ishikawa (1lha), Okayama (15ha), Hiroshima (55ha), Kochi (30ha), Fukuoka (134ha), Saga (33ha), Kumamoto (2,590ha), and Okinawa (15ha). Kumamoto is the largest rush producing prefecture in all of Japan, accounting for 89.6% of the total domestic rush production. From 1990 onward, imports of low-priced rush products from Chaina swelled during this period. Accordingly, Japan's rush self-sufficiency ratio declined from 87% in 1990 to as low as 41% in 2000 as the geographic reorganization of international rush production moved forward. Kumamoto Prefecture was a large-scale producing district of low-priced tatami facing, but it lost out to competition from Chinese rush products in the 1990's causing the area of land under rush cultivation to fall rapidly. Kumamoto Prefecture is now faced with the task of producing low-cost high-quality tatami-facing. In order to achieve this, many promotional programs have been put into place. In 1996, an effort began to improve the breed of rush, and in 1999 an action plan to promote rush production was developed and is currently under implementation.
2003-03-31