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Chapter 6 is a comparative study of the post-war technical and institutional agricultural transitions in China and selected Asian rice economies, especially Japan. After 1979, inter-sectoral competition for factors and resources between the agriculture and industrial sectors in China increased sharply. In the face of the same demands of technology diffusion, the experiences of China show significant differences in terms of technology selection, localisation and the duration of green revolution initiatives. Compared with China, Japan is another good example of technology deviation during green revolution. This chapter seeks to throw light on these issues by explaining the diversification in the same technology diffusion under different market structures and institutions between China and Japan.
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Thanks to a sharp and continuous decline in the marginal product of labour, the involutionary process was characterised by high land output side by side with a low output-to-labour ratio.
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This is also known as the Edo Bakufu (江戸幕府).
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It is determined by the cost of: (a) collective action; (b) the level of incentive to generate innovation; and (c) the nature of the distribution of revenue between the innovator and other beneficiaries.
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This has caused the price of agricultural labour to equalise with the industrial sector’s labour price, and thus no price difference between agriculture and industry labour markets. Consequently, the conditions leading to induced innovation type of institutional and technological change will no longer hold.
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The 2010 grain output reached 500 million tonnes.
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Du, J. (2018). Agricultural Transition in Selected Asian Economies. In: Agricultural Transition in China. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76905-9_6
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