Rice has played an important part in the stable supplying of staple food, in displaying the plural function of rice agriculture, and in securing the profits for the producers. However, the recent excess of rice is acting as the key to the price drop, increasing management anxiety and restricting the sound development of rice agriculture.
The main causes of the excess rice is because of the stability of produce, the ease of farm work, the decrease of consumption per person, and the concentration of support on rice due to the advance of technology. Thinking about these causes, the supply and demand discord will increase even more in the future. Therefore, one of the alternative solutions to solve the problem of the excess rice is the plan to make rice into animal feed, and research on this is required.
Including examinations and research studies done with the main research methods for advanced research, we propose research by understanding the actuality and policy of the animal feed in China and Japan, and carrying out fact-revealing analysis on site.
The goal of this research is to suggest the significance and possibility of the production of rice for animal feed in a situation where rice used as a staple food is in excess. From the result of this research we are aiming to: 1. plan the balance of demand and supply of rice used as a staple food by making it into animal feed and guarantee the stability of management for the rice agriculture, 2. replace the feed grain that is based on corn that is imported and improve the domestic self-sufficiency of feed grain, and 3. preserve a stable and highly productive rice agriculture base production and plan a sound and continuous development.


Researchers: Kim, Tae-Gon and Heo, Joo-Nyung
E-mail address: taegon@krei.re.kr