国際環境の変化と畜産物流通の新展開

抄録

The objective of this paper is to clarify the new problems facing livestock markets under internationalization which was implemented in 1991 and will be carried out in 1995 on account of the UR conclusion.
The results of the study can be summarized as follows:
(1) Depending upon the UR conclusion, the import system of dairy products will be changed from the import quarter system to the tarriffication one, and beef import tariff rate will be brought down from 50.0% to 38.5%.
(2) As a countermeasure for a fall in the price of calf, some cow-calf operators started shipping calves in the early stages to calf markets in order to ecconomize the production cost.
(3) Because prices of Wagyu calves in small cow-calf operation districts have been falling sharply since the beef import liberalization, it is necessary to improve the present calf price stabilization scheme.
(4) In order to cope with a shortage of labour in meat retail shops, it is essential to change auction forms and meat distribution forms from dress carcass ones to box meat ones.
(5) Matching the new internationalization, livestock products price stabilization schemes and pork import systems should be improved in order to safeguard the maintenance of domestic production and distribution.
(6) For the purpose of keeping up the domestic livestock production and distribution, famers and agricultural cooperatives ought to alter their production and distribution forms to value-added ones, and convert their production methods to environmentally conscious ones with the intention of preventing social criticism for water pollution and so forth.