Declining food self-sufficiency rate in Japan
Food self-sufficiency rate is an index showing how much domestic food consumption is covered by domestic production. As the proportion increases, we are able to eat without relying on exports from other countries. Japan is the world's largest food importer and food self-sufficiency rate is around 40%. In other words, because the self-sufficiency rate is less than 100%, you can’t eat without importing from another country. The reason for this is "consumption of Western food", which consumed less rice and started to eat dishes using a lot of meat and oils. Moreover, changes in Japanese dietary habits, such as an increase in "eating out", have a great influence on self-sufficiency rate.
There are some problems due to the decline in food self-sufficiency rate. Because food is rich in imported products, everyone tends to buy foreign cheaper than domestic production. Therefore, self-sufficiency rate tends to decrease steadily as farmers' income does not rise. If such a low self-sufficiency rate continues, it will be affected, for example, when the import destination becomes ineffective. It is said that farmers will become more painful now if tariffs are eliminated at TPP and other foreign domestic product become available cheaper.
As a factor of the decline, it is largely dependent on importing almost all of wheat, corn, soybeans out of the four major grains (rice, wheat, corn, soybeans). The yield of paddy rice per unit area is high, while the wheat, corn, soybean is low. In Japan, there is a reason for efficiency of cultivation yield such as rice cultivation with high unit yield being suitable.
The world's population surpasses 7.1 billion people and is projected to 9.6 billion people by 2050. About 870 million people suffer from chronic nutritional deficits as world food production is sluggish. Imports of food such as global warming and global abnormal weather, soaring crude oil prices, water shortages, domestic animal infectious diseases, export restrictions of exporting countries, etc. may suddenly stop. If food shortages occur, priority is given to supply to their own country, it is natural to regulate exports. When food on the world scale becomes difficult, it is possible when the battle of food will start. In other words, increasing production of food in the country is necessary for both Japan and the future Earth.
Food self-sufficiency rate is an index showing how much domestic food consumption is covered by domestic production. As the proportion increases, we are able to eat without relying on exports from other countries. Japan is the world's largest food importer and food self-sufficiency rate is around 40%. In other words, because the self-sufficiency rate is less than 100%, you can’t eat without importing from another country. The reason for this is "consumption of Western food", which consumed less rice and started to eat dishes using a lot of meat and oils. Moreover, changes in Japanese dietary habits, such as an increase in "eating out", have a great influence on self-sufficiency rate.
There are some problems due to the decline in food self-sufficiency rate. Because food is rich in imported products, everyone tends to buy foreign cheaper than domestic production. Therefore, self-sufficiency rate tends to decrease steadily as farmers' income does not rise. If such a low self-sufficiency rate continues, it will be affected, for example, when the import destination becomes ineffective. It is said that farmers will become more painful now if tariffs are eliminated at TPP and other foreign domestic product become available cheaper.
As a factor of the decline, it is largely dependent on importing almost all of wheat, corn, soybeans out of the four major grains (rice, wheat, corn, soybeans). The yield of paddy rice per unit area is high, while the wheat, corn, soybean is low. In Japan, there is a reason for efficiency of cultivation yield such as rice cultivation with high unit yield being suitable.
The world's population surpasses 7.1 billion people and is projected to 9.6 billion people by 2050. About 870 million people suffer from chronic nutritional deficits as world food production is sluggish. Imports of food such as global warming and global abnormal weather, soaring crude oil prices, water shortages, domestic animal infectious diseases, export restrictions of exporting countries, etc. may suddenly stop. If food shortages occur, priority is given to supply to their own country, it is natural to regulate exports. When food on the world scale becomes difficult, it is possible when the battle of food will start. In other words, increasing production of food in the country is necessary for both Japan and the future Earth.