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【Opinion】 Experts’ opinions on government panel proposals (Nov. 12, 2016)
Yoshiaki Masuda, professor at the University of Shiga Prefecture, and Yoshikazu Taniguchi, professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture, expressed their opinions regarding the proposals made on November 7 by an agricultural working group of the Council for Regulatory Reform. [By Yoshikazu Taniguchi, professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture] Council’s true goal denial of JA The true goal of the discussion on agricultural reform by the Council for Regulatory Reform is, as I interpret it, denial of agricultural cooperatives (JAs). What slips in and out of the proposal is the ideology of market fundamentalism that calls for undermining and segmentalizing the agricultural coops to help private companies to buy their businesses. … Continue reading
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【News】 Farm management advisors of agricultural cooperatives for increasing agricultural incomes of core farmers awarded at ZEN-NOH convention (Nov. 18, 2016)
ZEN-NOH (National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Association) or a national business organization of agricultural cooperatives (JAs) held a national convention of farm management advisors of agricultural cooperatives, who are called “Team for Agricultural Coordination” or TAC providing guidance to core farmers through maintaining face-to-face interactions with those farmers, at Yokohama city on November 17. Some 580 members of TACs and directors of agricultural cooperatives come to Yokohama from various part of Japan to join the national convention named “2016 Convention for TAC Power-up.” At a ceremony of the convention, Kitabiwako Agricultural Cooperative in Shiga prefecture received ZEN-NOH president’s award, a supreme award for the most excellent TAC team of the … Continue reading
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【News】 LDP’s lawmakers bitterly opposing agricultural reform proposal made by Government advisory panel leading to “bankruptcy” of agricultural cooperatives (Nov. 18, 2016)
The Agriculture and Forestry Division of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and LDP’s agricultural caucuses held a joint meeting on November 17 to discuss how to handle a radical proposal on agricultural reform, which was made on November 7 by an agricultural working group of Government’s advisory panel named as the Council for Promotion of Regulatory Reform. LDP lawmakers’ objections and angers against the proposal erupted at the meeting. They fiercely opposed the proposal because it could interfere in business activities of the private sector. A number of LDP’s agricultural caucus members urged that their ruling party should put forward its own proposal on the agricultural reform. It is … Continue reading
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【Editorial】 Unreasonable intervention in agricultural cooperatives’ management should never be allowed (Nov. 12, 2016)
The government’s Regulatory Reform Promotion Council has recently presented a draft proposal on reforming management of agricultural cooperatives. The key points include abolishing the consignment sales system of the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (ZEN-NOH) and making the organization shift within a year to the system of purchasing all the products, as well as turning primary farm coops (JAs) into agents, instead of providers, of financial services. These are extremely unreasonable proposals that totally ignore the functions and roles of ZEN-NOH’s sales business and JAs’ financial business. Such denial of cooperative businesses and intervention in management of an independent private organization should not be allowed for whatever reason. The … Continue reading
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【News】 Liberal Democratic Party to put forward its own proposal on agricultural reform focusing on marketing & financial businesses of agricultural cooperatives (Nov. 15, 2016)
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) started its full-scale discussions on agricultural reform on November 14 so that LDP could put forward its own proposal by the end of November. On November 11, an agricultural working group of the Council for Promotion of Regulatory Reform, Government’s advisory panel, announced its proposal on the agricultural reform, including a radical idea of abolishing a so-called consignment marketing system of ZEN-NOH (National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Association) or a national business organization of agricultural cooperatives (JAs). The focus of LDP’s discussions will be how to finally seek for their own conclusion of an agricultural reform scheme on the basis of real conditions of … Continue reading
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