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Kokudaka (石高) refers to a system for determining land value for taxation purposes under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo-period Japan, and expressing this value in terms of koku of rice. [ 1 ] One koku (roughly equivalent to five bushels ) was generally viewed as the equivalent of enough rice to feed one person for a year.
The current import tariff on foreign rice is 778%. The third vulnerability is the decline in Japan's farming population. Agricultural production declined from 11.7 trillion yen in 1984 to 8.2 trillion in 2011, and the number of farming households plummeted from over 6 million representing 14.5 million people in 1960 to 2.5 million households in ...
Rice production is important to the food supply, with rice being a staple part of the Japanese diet. Japan is the ninth largest producer of rice in the world. [1] The rice seasons in Northern Japan last from May–June to September–October. In central Japan, it is from April–May to August–October.
The exact modern koku is calculated to be 180.39 litres, 100 times the capacity of a modern shō. [11] [d] This modern koku is essentially defined to be the same as the koku from the Edo period (1600–1868), [e] namely 100 times the shō equal to 64827 cubic bu in the traditional shakkanhō measuring system.
Taxation in Japan is based primarily upon a national income tax (所得税 （ しょとくぜい ）) and a (住民税 （ じゅうみんぜい ）) based upon one's area of residence. [1] There are consumption taxes and excise taxes at the national level, an enterprise tax and a vehicle tax at the prefectural level and a property tax at the ...
Rice, the most protected crop, is subject to tariffs of 777.7%. [102] [106] Although Japan is usually self-sufficient in rice (except for its use in making rice crackers and processed foods) and wheat, the country must import about 50% of its requirements of other grain and fodder crops and relies on imports for half of its supply of meat.
Rice futures were listed, on a trial basis, from August 2011 to August 2021. The rice futures market has not been able to take off in recent years. In recent years, the demand for rice has seen a steady decline in Japan as the Japanese diet has diversified, sometimes resulting in a supply/demand imbalance.
Rice production by country (2019) This is a list of countries by rice production in 2022 based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world rice production for 2022 was 776,461,457 [1] metric tonnes. In 1961, the total world production was 216 million tonnes.