2.0 Objectives / Research questions / Hypothesis
This research is to find out whether establishment of rice free trading will benefit world economy or not, and observe impacts of rice free trade on international and local environments. Development of rice free trade will affect whole population from farmers to consumers. However, it is not easy to find reliable information about negative or positive impacts of the free trading. Therefore, a conclusion of this report will provide a logical suggestion for a global rice market, without any biases from either of green protesters or trade liberalists.
• Hypothesis
Because developed countries with more investment and advanced technology are dominating the international wheat market, developed countries such as the United State and Australia will achieve major success along rice free trading. Multi-National agricultural corporations will take over major rice production, and local farmers such as small landowners will not be able to sustain their rice fields. As a result, if a developing country could not maintain domestic rice production, they have to depend on importing the rice. Moreover, when transportation cost has increased they have to face a rapid increase of food prices.
3.0 Methodology / Approach to Study
This research is a secondary quantitative research.
This research looks at rice farming conditions at four different kinds of countries from other research results, and compares each to find advantages and disadvantages. The first group are developed countries with advanced agricultural technologies such as United States and Australia. The second group are developing countries recognized with an amount of rice exporting such as Thailand and Vietnam. The third group are countries, which are famous food producers and consume all within domestic markets such as China and India. The final country is Japan. Japan is a developed country with advanced technology, but Japanese people hardly export their high-quality and high-price food products.
Particularly, statistics, which show water, fertilizer, oil and energy consumption, the rice field size and numbers of farmers per one kilogram of final rice productions, on all targeted countries are compared to research agricultural efficiency of every country. Moreover, transportation systems that represent cost for connecting to the global rice markets in each country are compared. The difference at efficiency of the statistics and distance to the market provides an answer that which country will be a winner of the free trading.
This report also talks about practical agricultural technology in each group to figure out its environmental sustainability, such as use of solar and wind energy, efficiency of water and energy consumption, and solution to the soil erosion. This information supports a prophecy of future environmental situations at both of winners and losers under the rice free trading era.
This report looks at world development indicators to restore economic development of each group and find out future trend of further economic conditions and transportation costs.
This research is to find out whether establishment of rice free trading will benefit world economy or not, and observe impacts of rice free trade on international and local environments. Development of rice free trade will affect whole population from farmers to consumers. However, it is not easy to find reliable information about negative or positive impacts of the free trading. Therefore, a conclusion of this report will provide a logical suggestion for a global rice market, without any biases from either of green protesters or trade liberalists.
• Hypothesis
Because developed countries with more investment and advanced technology are dominating the international wheat market, developed countries such as the United State and Australia will achieve major success along rice free trading. Multi-National agricultural corporations will take over major rice production, and local farmers such as small landowners will not be able to sustain their rice fields. As a result, if a developing country could not maintain domestic rice production, they have to depend on importing the rice. Moreover, when transportation cost has increased they have to face a rapid increase of food prices.
3.0 Methodology / Approach to Study
This research is a secondary quantitative research.
This research looks at rice farming conditions at four different kinds of countries from other research results, and compares each to find advantages and disadvantages. The first group are developed countries with advanced agricultural technologies such as United States and Australia. The second group are developing countries recognized with an amount of rice exporting such as Thailand and Vietnam. The third group are countries, which are famous food producers and consume all within domestic markets such as China and India. The final country is Japan. Japan is a developed country with advanced technology, but Japanese people hardly export their high-quality and high-price food products.
Particularly, statistics, which show water, fertilizer, oil and energy consumption, the rice field size and numbers of farmers per one kilogram of final rice productions, on all targeted countries are compared to research agricultural efficiency of every country. Moreover, transportation systems that represent cost for connecting to the global rice markets in each country are compared. The difference at efficiency of the statistics and distance to the market provides an answer that which country will be a winner of the free trading.
This report also talks about practical agricultural technology in each group to figure out its environmental sustainability, such as use of solar and wind energy, efficiency of water and energy consumption, and solution to the soil erosion. This information supports a prophecy of future environmental situations at both of winners and losers under the rice free trading era.
This report looks at world development indicators to restore economic development of each group and find out future trend of further economic conditions and transportation costs.