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Scale Enlargement in Rice Farming: Is this an Appropriate Policy in the period of the import liberalization?

This paper analyzes effects and implications of scale enlargement in rice farming. Production cost function analysis with both time series and cross section data shows that average production cost decreases as the scale of farming grows larger. The other analysis result is that not only average operation cost increases but also total farm household income increases as the scale of farming become larger. Outlook of farm household income of 2010 shows that to maintain the income of 2000, production scale must be enlarged as much as about 1ha~5ha per a rice farming household according to rice price falling scenarios.