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【News】 International Co-operative Alliance president criticizes Japan’s agricultural reform proposal (May 28, 2014)
International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) President Pauline Green has expressed strong concern over a government panel’s proposal for agricultural reform, which includes breaking up of Japan’s agricultural cooperative system. The Council for Regulatory Reform proposed on Wednesday, May 14, that the supervisory function of the Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives (JA-Zenchu) should be abolished to give primary farm co-ops freer hand to run their businesses. It also said JA’s mutual aid and credit businesses should be transferred to other agricultural financial institutions. In a letter sent to JA-Zenchu President Akira Banzai by Tuesday, May 27, Green said the draft proposals “would clearly attack the very fundamental principles of the (co-operative) … Continue reading
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【News】 Hokkaido farmers fight to increase milk production (May 27, 2014)
Shingo Oka In Hokkaido, which produces half of the total raw milk supply in the nation, farmers and primary agricultural cooperatives are working to recover decline in the region’s milk production due to the increasing number of people giving up farming. Dairy farmers are actively promoting their products to consumers, while agricultural cooperatives are setting up dairy products companies to maintain the number of cows and create employment opportunities. In fiscal 2013, Hokuren Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives, which is engaged in sales and marketing of farm products in Hokkaido, was entrusted with 3,758,845 tons of raw milk, down 1.7 percent from the previous year. The drop was especially large … Continue reading
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【News】 Japanese-grown fruits highly evaluated worldwide, says a fruit gift shop executive (May 27, 2014)
<Remarks by Sembikiya Fruit Co. Executive Director Ushio Oshima at the national peach research conference held in Okayama on Sunday, May 15, sponsored by the national research council for fruit trees> Sembikiya is a fruit shop founded 180 years ago in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. Now we operate 17 shops including fruit parlors, and sell processed items as well as fresh fruits. We have separate companies in Kyobashi and Ginza, which make Sembikiya a group of three firms. Our main customers have been companies buying our products to send as gifts, but recently individual customers are increasing, especially in stores located in high-end residential areas. Average sale per customer is nearly … Continue reading
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【Editorial】 Japan must stand as one against pressure to open markets (May 22, 2014)
Ministerial meeting of the Trans-Pacific Partnership member nations in Singapore ended without much progress. However, when Prime Ministecxgvcr Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Barack Obama met in April, the two nations are reported to have agreed on a “formula” to reach a bilateral deal, and worries are growing among the public over the possibility that Japanese negotiators would make a compromise regarding tariffs on key agricultural products. Rounds of TPP negotiations are expected to take place before chief negotiators meet in July, and we must work together to reaffirm domestic consensus on the negotiating policies. What the negotiators mean by the term “formula” is to find common ground by … Continue reading
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【News】 US reluctant to introduce safeguard measures for Japanese farm products (May 21, 2014)
Hirobumi Senbongi – Singapore The United States negotiators have opposed to introducing safeguard measures for Japan’s key agricultural products in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, it was learned Tuesday, May 20.As Japan and the U.S. resumed bilateral negotiations in Singapore along with the two-day ministerial meeting of the TPP member nations, the U.S. kept its hard-line stance over the measures which were seen as a key to reaching broad agreement, according to Japanese government sources. The two nations, the biggest economies in the TPP, are said to have agreed on a “formula” with which they can seal a bilateral deal on the remaining issues, when they held marathon talks … Continue reading
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