Fragmented small farms in Japan and other high wge rice-based economies in monsoon Asia have become an obstacle to sustainable rural development. This problem has not yet been resolved under private land ownership. This article recommends that based on a mixed economy of private owvership of farmland and public ownership of infrastructure land, dispersed parcels of farms could be consolidated through exchange of private ownership and location into compact land units, which could then be enlarged by individual lease or cooperative/enterprise production.
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Paper provided by European University Institute in its series Economics Working Papers with number
eco96/36.
Length: 28 pages Date of creation: 1996 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:eui:euiwps:eco96/36
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