Climate change impacts on rice production in Japan: A Cobb-Douglas and panel data analysis

This study provides an overview of the most important factors of climate change impacting on rice production and the methods to measure the degree of the climate change affect to agricultural production by prefectures in Japan. Cobb-Douglas production function combining with panel data analysis is a...

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Main Author: Caixia Li
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-03-01
Series:Ecological Indicators
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X23001504
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description This study provides an overview of the most important factors of climate change impacting on rice production and the methods to measure the degree of the climate change affect to agricultural production by prefectures in Japan. Cobb-Douglas production function combining with panel data analysis is applied to describe the relationship between the productive factors and production. Due to analyzing the impact of climate change to rice production further, we create the panel data for 7 regions (Tohoku includes Hokkaido) by 46 prefectures. In addition, we set rice production as dependent variable, and labor, temperature, precipitation, duration of sunshine, wind speed and TE (technical progress) as controlled variables. The main purpose of this study is to analyze which climate change factor impacts the most on rice production, whether the impact is positive or not. We found that there is an invert U-shape existed between temperature and rice production, and precipitation and wind speed negatively affected rice production for whole country. In addition, sunshine duration affects rice production positively. For regions, the results are quite different because of different latitude or other impacting factors omitted. We concluded that the additional climatic variable wind speed negatively affected to rice production in most prefectures. In addition, temperature positively affects rice production except for Kyushu region. In order to adapt the wind speed strong suddenly, the selection of rice seeds is important in the rice growing season. Choosing the rice seeds that are anti-high-speed wind is extremely important.
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spelling doaj.art-4fef248a53e14b0e846f67f7d5cfa0472023-02-24T04:30:05ZengElsevierEcological Indicators1470-160X2023-03-01147110008Climate change impacts on rice production in Japan: A Cobb-Douglas and panel data analysisCaixia Li0Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, JapanThis study provides an overview of the most important factors of climate change impacting on rice production and the methods to measure the degree of the climate change affect to agricultural production by prefectures in Japan. Cobb-Douglas production function combining with panel data analysis is applied to describe the relationship between the productive factors and production. Due to analyzing the impact of climate change to rice production further, we create the panel data for 7 regions (Tohoku includes Hokkaido) by 46 prefectures. In addition, we set rice production as dependent variable, and labor, temperature, precipitation, duration of sunshine, wind speed and TE (technical progress) as controlled variables. The main purpose of this study is to analyze which climate change factor impacts the most on rice production, whether the impact is positive or not. We found that there is an invert U-shape existed between temperature and rice production, and precipitation and wind speed negatively affected rice production for whole country. In addition, sunshine duration affects rice production positively. For regions, the results are quite different because of different latitude or other impacting factors omitted. We concluded that the additional climatic variable wind speed negatively affected to rice production in most prefectures. In addition, temperature positively affects rice production except for Kyushu region. In order to adapt the wind speed strong suddenly, the selection of rice seeds is important in the rice growing season. Choosing the rice seeds that are anti-high-speed wind is extremely important.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X23001504AgricultureClimate changeCobb-Douglas production functionPanel data analysisJapan
spellingShingle Caixia Li
Climate change impacts on rice production in Japan: A Cobb-Douglas and panel data analysis
Ecological Indicators
Agriculture
Climate change
Cobb-Douglas production function
Panel data analysis
Japan
title Climate change impacts on rice production in Japan: A Cobb-Douglas and panel data analysis
title_full Climate change impacts on rice production in Japan: A Cobb-Douglas and panel data analysis
title_fullStr Climate change impacts on rice production in Japan: A Cobb-Douglas and panel data analysis
title_full_unstemmed Climate change impacts on rice production in Japan: A Cobb-Douglas and panel data analysis
title_short Climate change impacts on rice production in Japan: A Cobb-Douglas and panel data analysis
title_sort climate change impacts on rice production in japan a cobb douglas and panel data analysis
topic Agriculture
Climate change
Cobb-Douglas production function
Panel data analysis
Japan
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X23001504
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