VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN JAPAN

Japan has neither export nor import of vegetables; consumption and production are approximately the same.
The value of production in vegetables in Japan in 1975 was 1 400 000 million yen making them next in importance to rice and to the livestock industries, representing about 16 per cent of the total value of agricultural production.
In terms of quantity of product, vegetables amount to 15 million ton which exceeds 13 million ton of rice, the staple food of Japan.
The consumption per capita per year in 1975 was 111 kg and this should be compared with 88 kg of rice, 53 kg of milk and dairy products, 43 kg of fruits, 35 kg of fish and shellfishes and 17 kg of meat.
Thus, vegetables are extremly important for Japanese living.

Consumption of vegetables, however, has not increased in these ten years and maintains a constant level as can be seen in table 1.

Table 1 Change of vegetable consumption per capita per year.
Figures except for 1975 do not include ‘Okinawa’ prefecture.

Fiscal year	Comsumption per	Per cent of the	Index number
	capita (kg)	previous year	(1960 = 100)

1960	99.7	116.6	100.0
1965	109.6	105.1	110.0
1970	115.6	96.2	115.9
1975	111.3	97.9	111.6
1975	111.3	97.9	111.6

Symposium on Vegetable growing in the Asian and Pacific Region, XX IHC

Dr. Kunio Yamakawa

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1979.101.3