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【Opinion】Joint efforts vital to fight against intentions behind agricultural cooperatives reform (Sep. 27, 2016)
[By Yoichi Tashiro, professor emeritus at Otsuma Women’s University] With the Diet session opening, there is one thing we have to make clear before the start of deliberations on agricultural policies: exactly why and how agricultural cooperatives are attacked. The true intentions behind attacks on farm coops can be seen in the two unsettled issues listed in the Regulatory Reform Council’s second report released in June 2015. The first is to turn primary cooperatives’ credit business into branches and agents. The second is to demutualize institutions affiliated with agricultural cooperatives, including the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (ZEN-NOH), the Norinchukin Bank, and federations under the prefectural agricultural cooperative unions … Continue reading
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【News】 Intellectual property right of potted gentians to be exported to EU growers by Hachimantai city government, Iwate prefecture (Oct. 16, 2016)
Hachimantai city government begins to export its “intellectual property right” by providing farmers in a member country of the European Union with its plant breeder’s rights, which enables European farmers to grow and market their potted gentians, special products of the city in Iwate prefecture. A market of potted flowers in EU is much bigger than that in Japan. It is banned by EU’s rules of plant epidemic prevention, however, for Japanese growers to directly ship potted flowers with soil attached to the market. The city government has found an alternative way of exporting its special product to the European market by selling seeds of gentians and plant breeder’s rights … Continue reading
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【Opinion】All-out competition leads to devastation of agriculture (Sep. 26, 2016)
[By Masaru Kaneko, Professor of Keio University] Two major United States presidential election candidates – Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton – are both against the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. How meaningful is it for Japan to rush to ratify the agreement, when the U.S. is not in a situation to pass it? If Clinton becomes the president, the U.S. could make even harsher requests. The biggest points at issue are the stock breeding and dairy farming sectors. As for stock breeding, 70 percent of tariffs on beef and pork will be eliminated under the pact. If some dairy products including cheese will be subject to market liberalization, there are … Continue reading
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【Editorial】Thorough probe necessary on suspected kickbacks undercutting prices of foreign rice (Sep. 16，2016)
It was recently revealed that the system of setting prices of imported rice through state-run auctions, designed to keep the prices at certain levels, has not been working due to kickbacks. It is suspected that foreign rice is traded in the Japanese market at much lower prices than domestically-grown rice. Japan has agreed under the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal to import some 80,000 tons of rice through simultaneous buy and sell (SBS) orders, but the government’s claim that the impact of such imports on domestic rice is zero now sounds highly dubious. The government must promptly investigate the case and offer an explanation. Japan imports 770,000 tons of rice annually under … Continue reading
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【News】 Corn for feed grains growing in paddy fields: Aomori Prefectural Government challenging to locally produce feed grains for poultry farms (Sep. 20, 2016)
With a view to replacing a part of compound feeds for livestock animals, depending almost 100 percent upon imported feedstuff, with locally-produced corn for feed grains, Aomori Prefectural Government initiated a new project of implementing a demonstrative experiment for growing corn in paddy fields of 6 hectares this year. By achieving the project, the Prefectural Government aims to work out a business model which is to initiate a chicken farm business of marketing high value-added poultry produced with corn for feed grains supplied by local farmers’ association. Member farmers of the rice producers’ association are requested to implement a two-year corn-rice rotation in their paddy fields. Farm management models for … Continue reading
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