@article{NAKASHIMA:164637,
      recid = {164637},
      author = {NAKASHIMA, Yasuhiro},
      title = {Issues and Possibilities of a New Scheme for Rice  Production Control A Case Study of Niigata Prefecture},
      journal = {Journal of Rural Economics},
      address = {2010-09},
      number = {359-2016-18395},
      pages = {11},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {This study shows a basic proposal of an alternative scheme  of rice production control as an ‘environment-conscious'  set-aside program. The scheme is designed to consist of a  regular set-aside program to produce crops other than rice  as well as an environmental program of extensive rice  farming practice to reduce rice yield by half with few  chemical applications as a cross compliance. It will be  able to ensure full usage of paddy lands for agricultural  production and increase multifunctional benefits from  biodiversity and landscape conservation.
Whether it is  actually possible to implement the new scheme is likely to  depend upon field conditions and the existence of local  leading farmers. The plan of the set-aside program should  take into consideration both mechanical and biological  conditions of local fields. Mechanical conditions such as  plot formation and accessibility of field passage are  significant to encourage large scale farming of both rice  and the other crops efficiently. Ground water level for  drainage is an important biological condition that  determines the performance of raising other crops. Small  farm managements under the worse biological condition of  paddy fields might be likely to adopt an environmental  program with direct payments.
The study constructs its own  analytical database of field conditions and rice farming on  a local field basis, examines an appropriate grant level to  stimulate program participation, and calculates a  quantitative result of expected set-aside allocation. A  joint application of new extensive farming and regular  set-aside programs could effectively accomplish a national  rice control plan without entailing wasteland.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/164637},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.164637},
}