A Study on Sustainability of Agricultural Management by Agent Simulation

Abstract

Japanese agricultural sector is facing several risks such as "the aging farming population", "theshortage of successors", "the increasing abandoned farmland" and "low profitability ". Japanesegovernment and farmers have been deploying various efforts to eliminate these risks such as changingThe Agricultural Land Act and investing Infrastructure investment. There are some cases of improvingsales by constructing new irrigation facilities and developing means of transportation and sales channels.In this paper, authors made simple plant selection models of farmers and governments and try to checkthe impact to planting of farmers by agent simulation. As a result of simulation experiments, thesimulation environment enabled authors to confirm the change due to differences in producer's pricebargaining power and administrative decision-making pattern in parameters designed with reference toactual conditions.