農業系公設試験研究機関における研究開発に関する実証的分析

―主要農作物の新品種開発を題材として―

抄録

In order to strengthen the competitiveness of Japanese agriculture, the government is trying to promote research and development in agriculture, especially new variety development. In the new variety development of main crops (rice, wheat, soybean, etc.), prefectural agricultural public research institutions have played an important role. However, empirical analysis on this issue is little in Japan.

In order to promoting the new variety development, it is important to clarify the effective point for that. So this paper has conducted an empirical analysis of research and development in the agricultural public research institutions, using a panel data of the management resources of agricultural public research institutions.

As the results of the analysis, the increase in research budget has the positive impact on new varieties development of major crops by agricultural public research institutions. On the other hand, the increase in the main crop production value has the negative impact on that.