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【News】 Tomato producers jointly tackling shortage of part-time workers at grading house in quake-hit area of Yatsushiro Agricultural Cooperative, Kumamoto prefecture (April 26, 2016)
Farmers in the territory of Yatsushiro Agricultural Cooperative (JA), one of major tomato producing areas in Japan, have entered their busiest season of harvest in the year. A tomato grading facility of the JA Yatsushiro, however, is now suffering from a lack of part-time workers. A number of those workers have been evacuated at public shelters taking off at the grading house since the Kumamoto earthquake hardly struck the area on April 14. With a view to coping with the shortage of part-time workers, member farmers of the tomato producers’ group of JA Yatsushiro decided to fill the vacancy of grading and packing workers at the facility by themselves. In … Continue reading
【Opinion】 France’s mountain farming – a model for Japanese farmers (April 8, 2016)
Toshinobu Kitabayashi, head of Worldwide Agricultural Policy Information Center Between the beginning of this year and February, a series of fierce protests spread among livestock farmers of western France against a squeeze in margins by large supermarkets which made it difficult for them to even make up for production costs. The French government and the European Union have been busy trying to settle the issue, with President Francois Hollande promising to review the deregulatory measures implemented under the act on modernization of agriculture and fisheries enacted in 2010 by the administration of former President Nicholas Sarkozy, and the European Union presenting emergency support measures. However, I would like to discuss … Continue reading
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【News】 Livestock and dairy farmers hardly hit by powerful earthquake in JA Kikuchi area, Kumamoto prefecture (April 17, 2016)
In early morning on April 16, Kumamoto region of Kumamoto prefecture on the Kyushu Island was severely struck by a powerful earthquake centering in the region, which registered an upper 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale. Tremors of the earthquake were more violent than those of an earthquake, registering an intensity of 7 on the scale, which hit the same area on the evening of April 14. The earthquake and a number of aftershocks caused widespread suffering in the Kumamoto region. Damages caused on agriculture by the earthquake have been reportedly increasing. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced that the earthquake striking the Kumamoto region before dawn on April 16 … Continue reading
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【Column】The world’s “poorest” president (April 6, 2016)
Jose Mujica, 80, former president of Uruguay who is described as “the world’s poorest president,” has made his first visit to Japan. He captured the world’s attention in 2012 when he delivered a legendary speech at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil. People were deeply moved by his message that development cannot go against happiness. In his speech, he questioned whether the current development – hyper consumption ruled by globalized capitalism, environmental destruction and people losing freedom and devoting their life to repaying loans – is really what we wanted. “Is it possible to speak of solidarity and of being all together in an economy based on … 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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