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【News】 Convenience stores and dairy manufacturers focus on “Easter” holiday retail sales promotion (March 25, 2016)
Goods for a limited time are appearing in the market one after another towards an “Easter” holiday on March 27. In recent years egg marketing firms have carried on sales promotion campaigns coinciding the Easter holiday. This year non-egg-marketing corporations such as convenience store chains and dairy manufacturers are conspicuous by their participation in the nation-wide sales campaign. According to a private research company, almost 90 percent of the Japanese people recognize the date of Easter. A number of companies are paying attention to a new date of holiday retail sales promotion, which has been added to a calendar for marketing business in Japan. One of the largest convenience store … Continue reading
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【News】 G7 Agricultural Ministers’ Meeting to discuss global challenge of food security (March 23, 2016)
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (MAFF) announced on March 21 an agenda of the Group of Seven (G7) Agricultural Ministers’ Meeting to be held at Niigata-shi, Niigata prefecture on April 23-24. The agenda of the G7 Agricultural Minsters’ Meeting covers key subjects such as technical development for raising agricultural productivity to achieve global food security, promotion of active participation of young males and females, and acquirement of human resources in rural communities. The Ministers plan to adopt a “Niigata Declaration” as fruitful results of their talks. The G7 Agricultural Ministerial Meeting will be held to coincide with the Ise-Shima Summit. This is the second time in … Continue reading
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【News】 Japan and China agree to further promote cooperation in agriculture at vice-ministerial meeting (March 22, 2016)
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (MAFF) and the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China (MOA) held a vice-ministerial meeting at Beijing, China, on March 21 for the first time in six years. MAFF’s Vice Minister Kazuyoshi Honkawa and MOA’s Vice Minister Qu Dongyu exchanged views on a wide range of subjects, including bilateral measures to control transboundary animal diseases and China’s removals of import restrictions on agricultural, forestry and fishery products. And they came to an agreement that MAFF and MOA will further promote exchanges of persons and information as well as cooperation in various fields of agriculture between the two countries. Regarding … Continue reading
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【Opinion】 No rush to ratify Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (March 29, 2016)
Yoichi Tashiro, professor of agricultural economics at Otsuma Women’s University The Diet is set to begin debates on a bill to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement and related bills. Prior to the upcoming deliberations, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate economist of Columbia University who was invited to Tokyo by the Japanese government, advised Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to delay a sales tax increase scheduled for next year. Abe apparently invited Stiglitz to obtain support for his intention to postpone the tax hike to ensure victory in the elections – the essential part of his syllogistic strategy of ratifying the TPP deal to realize Abenomics policies to win majority seats in … Continue reading
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【News】 Large-scale commercial cultivation of Shinano Gold apples to start in Italy Nagano Prefecture signs license contract (March 25, 2016)
Large-scale commercial cultivation of Shinano Gold yellow apples developed in Nagano Prefecture will start in South Tyrol, Italy. Nagano Prefectural Government has signed a license contract with the South Tyrolean Fruit Growers’ Cooperatives (VOG) and the Val Venosta Cooperative Association (VI-P) on March 24, 2016. Italian-grown Shinano Gold apples will be sold in Europe and surrounding areas and the prefecture will receive license fees. Nagano expects that this will also help it to promote Nagano Brand in Europe. Shinano Gold is a medium-late season apple variety with well-balanced sour-sweetness. It was developed by Nagano Prefecture in 1999. The two European fruit grower’s associations expect Shinano Gold to become popular in … Continue reading
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