Amid the “rice shortage,” the number of rice farms going bankrupt or going out of business is rapidly increasing, hitting a new record high, as rising costs for fertilizer and other items become a heavy burden.

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0001Gure ★.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 19:57:13.65ID:GzaV6NBI9
*Published at 10:00 on 9/5 (Thu)
Teikoku Databank
The aging of producers and lack of successors are also contributing to the problem
Amid a nationwide rice shortage and soaring prices, rice farmers are going bankrupt and going out of business. From January to August 2024, there were six bankruptcies (debts of over 10 million yen, legal reorganization) and 28 cases of rice farming (suspension, closure, etc.), with a total of 34 farms disappearing from production sites. The number of bankruptcies and business closures is set to significantly exceed the number for the whole of 2011 (35 cases), and is certain to be the highest number for a year, and is also expected to reach 40 cases in a year for the first time. The reasons behind the successive bankruptcies and closures of rice farms that produce rice for staple food include rising production costs and a serious shortage of successors and people looking to take over the farming industry. According to a survey by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the prices of production materials needed for agriculture in 2023 will rise 1.2 times compared to the 20-year average. In particular, fertilizer, many of whose raw materials are imported, increased in price by 1.5 times, utility costs increased by 1.2 times due to increases in the prices of gasoline and diesel, and agricultural chemicals increased by 1.1 times. Most of the major materials increased in price. Continue reading below.

「コメ不足」のさなか、コメ農家の倒産・廃業が急増 過去最多を更新へ 肥料などのコスト増負担が重く(帝国データバンク) - Yahoo!ニュース
全国的なコメ不足と価格高騰のなか、米作農家の倒産や廃業に歯止めがかからない。2024年1-8月に発生した米作農業(コメ農家)の倒産(負債1000万円以上、法的整理)が6件、休廃業・解散(廃業)が2
0033Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:14:06.00ID:tvmppcSd0
>>1
It’s the government’s fault that they don’t want to succeed him because there is no successor. Stop pushing agriculture.
0075Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:33:22.58ID:R3XzF2uF0(1/4)
>>1
I told you so, didn’t I?
There are people who are saying that we should release stockpiled rice and lower the price, but
as of last week, I said, “If we keep saying that, the farmers who grow rice will gradually decrease, and eventually we’ll end up with a constant rice shortage.” And if that happens, the price will naturally remain high all the time, and the time will come when Japanese rice will be priced only for the wealthy. I said that this will happen eventually if you focus on short-term low prices.
0098Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:42:56.68ID:nQtq0RVA0
>>1
This is what happens when they have no other choice but to wholesale to JA
Not only JA but also distributors, wholesalers, and retailers make profits, so they can only make 30% of the retail price.
0002Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 19:58:43.21ID:ds/Q0DN/0
Wheat was always valued, and rice was the only thing we criticized for being high in carbohydrates.
0003Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 19:59:20.07ID:KG7XYdex0
Osaka: “That’s fine, I want more Expo funding.”
0004Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 19:59:28.07ID:TIPDn0iX0(1/2)
If only the yen hadn’t weakened. Fertilizer prices have really gone up.
0005Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:00:15.91ID:q8nvnSbE0(1/2)
The LDP’s aim is to make farmers poorer and poorer so that they have no successors. During the TPP, the LDP used netouyo to attack farmers.
0006Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:00:31.41ID:DRdeiMl/0(1/2)
Rice will become even more expensive next year.
0007Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:00:42.68ID:swbMPX7c0
If you don’t have rice, pasta is fine.
0008Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:00:43.39ID:+ZJiJS7k0(1/3)
It’s over. Consumers in this country are all crazy, deflationary, cost-effective consumers who don’t give a damn about producers. This is the fate of a country that has become poor after neglecting food production for many years.
0070Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:31:01.38ID:nJMuOJ8T0
>>8
So true.
0009Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:02:17.34ID:JDtReur00
Agriculture is dead, the birthrate is falling and people aren’t having children. From now on, we’ll be experiencing a decline so severe it will make the lost 30 years seem pale in comparison.
0010Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:03:33.26ID:fsGPx2we0
Ah, this one doesn’t raise the price. Even America, the home of capitalism, keeps grain prices down. But beautiful countries are a little different.
0048Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:18:52.37ID:3RQb0fLB0
>>10
If the price is too high, they’ll switch to wheat or something.
0057Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:23:28.42ID:TIPDn0iX0(2/2)
>>10
Consumers don’t have money either, so they can’t buy expensive things.
If you look at the Engel coefficient, it’s rising steadily.
Even if the price goes up, the only thing farmers can do is reduce rice consumption, so it’s a vicious cycle that makes farmers suffer even more.
0013Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:05:15.12ID:1SDvJG4V0(1/8)
Even though it’s just how little it is compared to my dad’s ramen shop owner.
0014Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:05:37.70ID:cwsth0pL0
If there’s no rice, we can just eat American wheat.
0015Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:06:02.00ID:q8nvnSbE0(2/2)
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, per capita consumption of staple rice has been declining year by year since its peak in fiscal 1962 (118 kg), falling to less than half that figure at 51 kg per year in fiscal 2022. Why is there a rice shortage even though fewer Japanese people are eating rice? The fundamental cause is the “failure of agricultural policy” known as the “rice paddy reduction policy.” President Online
In addition, rice shortages are inevitable because rice paddies are subsidized for export.
No matter how good the harvest is, rice grown for export cannot be sold domestically because of the subsidies.
0016Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:06:09.50ID:Skeg9Kai0
The agricultural workforce is declining at a rate of 100,000 people per year, yet only 34 businesses went out of business in the first eight months of the year. Isn’t there something odd about these statistics? Or are these figures only for large agricultural corporations?
0026Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:10:15.86ID:1SDvJG4V0(2/8)
>>16
There are statistics that say the number has decreased by about 700,000 in 8 years,
but instead, technical intern trainees have been brought in, so the actual number of workers may not have changed that much.
However, rice farming does not use technical intern trainees, so the number of workers in paddy fields should not have changed that much.
0043Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:18:15.57ID:iEQENIvf0
>>16
In the first place, business closures don’t happen without some kind of notification, so these statistics are just about the number of times we notice something like a closure registration or business closure.
0017Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:06:59.14ID:E2M44BnJ0
From now on, it’s time to use your head and invest; you won’t become rich by just farming.
0022Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:08:55.99ID:mZOs7Vrq0(1/6)
>>17
Um, what’s going on with the Norinchukin Bank?
0018Security Guard [lv.12] [Sprout].Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:07:45.88ID:YR+Up3Yp0(1/7)
But if we raise the price, people will just stop buying rice. In other words, if we can’t produce it cheaply like other countries, there’s no demand. Those that go out of business should sell their farmland to large farmers and expand their operations.
0019(Kanagawa Prefecture)(Tokyo)(Mushroom)Neko Neko Japan.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:07:54.97ID:ocCpeuDD0
I don’t know.
Maybe it was knocked down by a typhoon?
If they’re going to go out of business, they’ll have to do it after the harvest.
The purchase price of rice goes up.
0020Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:08:09.08ID:7vajH1xG0
Are they inducing a rice shortage in order to accelerate the shift away from rice?
0021Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:08:24.76ID:BFnq5ZZw0
>The highest number ever for the LDP
And it’s terrible.
0024Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:09:34.65ID:lyuAqJ4l0
And the Liberal Democratic Party.
0027Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:11:36.03ID:HPtIUvv50(1/3)
To put it simply, the yen is too weak,

necessary fertilizer fuel and distribution costs are rising sharply,

and yet, buying and selling at low prices is just a loss.

0031Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:13:34.99ID:1SDvJG4V0(3/8)
>>27
There was no champagne tower for Abenomics
But the yen weakened and the value of the currency fell, so this happened.
0029Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:12:03.80ID:AHla5twz0
It seems like the world is becoming one where only the rich can afford to live.
0030Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:13:28.26ID:mZOs7Vrq0(3/6)
They should follow the system of other countries, there are some strange people living there who are also doing farming lol, taking out the middleman.
0034Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:14:12.47ID:NayUzIsX0(1/2)
If they are going to be eliminated, then so be it?
Costs won’t come down unless we create large-scale farms.
0039Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:16:23.17ID:1SDvJG4V0(4/8)
>>34
There are many small-scale farmers who waste their own rice by hulling it and bagging it.
0035Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:14:39.78ID:HPtIUvv50(2/3)
Even though they went below break-even, they continued because it was ancestral land and other reasons, so if that suddenly snaps, it’ll be the end. They’ve just been relying on that for so long.
0036Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:14:51.36ID:mZOs7Vrq0(4/6)
Agricultural Cooperative Association

It’s a postwar zombie virus. More like a curse than a war criminal.

0037Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:14:57.52ID:I8kaiGxr0
You guys have posted a lot of misleading replies, but I think the real cause is that people have had the coronavirus vaccine, but I’d like everyone’s opinions.
0042Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:17:45.89ID:jjxN3eYd0(1/5)
Listening to everyone’s rice price reports makes me blue…
0050Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:19:20.37ID:7UuevCEV0(1/2)
Check out the suicide rate among farmers, it’s hilarious lol.
0064Security Guard [lv.12] [Sprout].Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:26:50.61ID:YR+Up3Yp0(2/7)
>>50
Wow lol
The highest suicide rate by occupation lol
Better than being unemployed though. Bankruptcy is a bleak prospect. Agriculture is not something you should invest in with debt.
0058Anonymous Donburako.Sep. 5, 2024 (Thu) 20:23:33.12ID:jdurKz620
We should protect it with tax money.
Reference: https://asahi.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/newsplus/1725533833

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