The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has announced the 2023 “food self-sufficiency index,” which shows the country’s ability to maximize its food needs domestically. If potatoes were planted as much as possible, the supply would be 2,362 kcal per person per day, 24 kcal less than in the previous fiscal year, the lowest on record. The number of farmers is declining due to a decline in the number of farmers, making it urgent to secure labor. The food self-sufficiency index allows us to grasp potential production capacity in the event of an emergency, such as a disruption of imports. With the current diet, which combines imports, each person will be provided with 2,203 kilocalories per day in fiscal year 2011. Of this, 1,362 kilocalories will be met through imports. The estimated amount of energy needed to maintain weight is 2,167 kcal. The amount of calories that could be supplied per person per day in fiscal 2011 if domestic production were based solely on potato crops exceeded these figures. This means that potatoes provide 1,408 calories. However, this was the lowest figure since fiscal 2009, when the ministry began publishing figures. In fiscal 2011, the total number of agricultural workers, including core agricultural workers and employees, decreased by 50,000 from the previous year to 1.41 million, and the area of farmland decreased by 28,000 hectares to 4.297 million hectares. On the other hand, if maximum planting of rice and wheat were used, the increase in wheat yield would push up the daily average for each person in FY2011, reaching 1,752 kcal, an increase of 16 kcal compared to FY2011. It is estimated that rice will provide 834 kilocalories and wheat 437 kilocalories. Overall, the energy requirements for weight maintenance were lower. Since rice and wheat can be produced with less labor than potatoes, the daily average consumption per person has remained stable at around 1,700 kilocalories since fiscal 2010. *This thread was created 10 minutes ago and disappeared immediately, so it is a new thread.
>>10 The logic is that if we produce high-calorie foods, our self-sufficiency rate will increase easily but can we really go against nature and change agricultural products that easily?
Food self-sufficiency rates are based on calorie and production value. Overseas, they are based on production value. Japan’s rate is not particularly low based on production value.
For some reason, Japan gives figures based on calories and compares them with overseas figures based on production value, and during the Showa era, it was imprinted on people that Japan’s food self-sufficiency rate was low lol.
The LDP’s stance is that small and medium-sized businesses have low productivity, so they should be shut down, and they can just buy from overseas. So they have come this far with a clear will and purpose.
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Japan’s food self-sufficiency rate is extremely low among developed countries… “More than half of Japanese people would starve to death” in a Taiwan emergency Yomiuri Shimbun Thank you, LDP, for your crazy rice production reduction policy Thank you, peace-dazed, inbound LDP.
Unless they cut back on rice production and lower their self-sufficiency rate, import trading companies won’t be able to make the highest profits ever.
>>50 Agricultural economics is too focused on economics and is too disconnected from the field, so it is seen as a useless academic field. In a sense, it is an academic field that deals with the strongest world I have ever imagined. Right now, we live in a world of rice surplus, so we are saying that we should reduce rice production, and this academic field failed to predict this year’s rice shortage.
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