동북아 농업구조와 역내 농산물 교역구조

Abstract

Analyses of Northeast Asian Agricultural Structure and Trade 1. Objectives of the Study The objectives of this study are to provide basic information to promote agricultural cooperations in the Northeast Asian region. For this purpose, we will explain the complementary or competitive relations between member countries with regard to the agricultural production and trade by analysing agricultural structure. 2. Contents and Methodologies China, Japan and Korea have the agricultural characteristic of land saving small-scale farming in common, which might result in competitive relationship between them. At the same time, however, they have some differences in factor endowment ratios and factor productivities, which tend to cause mutually complementary relations. Some eminent causes of changes in agricultural production and trade are identified as the changes in prices of factors and of products as well as the changes in consumptions in each member country. But each factor has different effects by country. Japan, for instance, has somewhat abnormal structure in which increasing consumption of some items promotes imports rather than increasing domestic production of the items. Mutual complementarity and export competitive relations between the countries are different depending on products. In general, however, complementarity seems to be stronger than export competitive relation in agricultural trade between China and Japan. On the other hand, export competitive relation is stronger in the Korea-China trade. Complementarity and competitive relation appear to be evident in the trade between Korea and Japan. The competitive agricultural trade relations between Korea and China as well as Korea and Japan imply that survival of the Korean agriculture is not guaranteed even under the Northeast Asian Economic Cooperation.

Researchers: Eor Myong-Keun, Choi Sei-Kyun, Kim Tae-Gon, Chung Chung-Gil, and Heo Joo-Nyung E-mail Address: myongeor@krei.re.kr.