The impact of farmland readjustment and consolidation on structural adjustment: The case of Niigata, Japan

Yutaka Arimoto, 寛 有本 and ユタカ アリモト

No 2011-3, CEI Working Paper Series from Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: Improving agricultural productivity is a pressing challenge for rapidly growing economies. Farmland concentration among core famers is instrumental for reaping the economies of scale. However, farmland fragmentation often serves as a barrier to such structural adjustments. This paper studies Farmland Improvement Projects in Japan, which physically mitigate farmland fragmentation by merging and enlarging small plots and consolidating land parcels among farmers. I employ community-level panel data to make use of difference-in-differences matching estimators, in order to measure the projects’ impacts. I find positive effects of the projects on structural adjustment, in the form of machinery-work outsourcing.

Keywords: farmland improvement project; farmland concentration; farmland fragmentation; structural adjustment; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2011-07
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