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【News】 Asian farmers’ organizations celebrate successful completion of JA Zenchu’s fund-raising campaign for small farmers in Asia (March 16, 2016)
Successful completion of a long-range fund raising campaign named “Fundraising for Coexistence with Asia” was highly appreciated by representatives of farmers’ organizations in seven Asian countries, including the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia, at a meeting held in Tokyo on March 9-10. The nation-wide campaign has been promoted by JA ZENCHU, an apex body of agricultural cooperative (JA) organizations in Japan since 2005. Donations made mostly by farmers and JAs’ staff members in the country have been invested into a number of micro-projects launched by Asian farmers’ organizations to raise incomes of their member farmers. An amount of the fund donated to those micr0-projects in Asian villages during the past eleven … Continue reading
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【News】 JA Group’s tasting and sale of Japanese rice attracts Shanghai consumers in China (March 7, 2016)
JA Group, an organizational network of Japanese agricultural cooperatives (JAs), held a special event to attract Chinese consumers with tasty Japanese rice on March 5-6 at a department store in Shanghai, China. The event was arranged in conjunction with a project of Japanese rice export promotion launched in Shanghai jointly by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and other agencies. A special site prepared at the Isetan Department Store in Shanghai appealed Japanese rice to Shanghai citizens through various ways such as tasting and sale, video playing and panel displaying. Customers of the Department Store enjoyed tastings of rice balls, curry rice and yellowtail sushi prepared by the … Continue reading
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【News】 Shinzo Abe raises expectations for farmers’ income growth at joint meeting of administration and private sectors (March 5, 2016)
Choe Okuno, president of JA-ZENCHU, a representative body of Japanese agricultural cooperative (JA) organizations, said the JA group will make every effort to successfully carry out its self-reform scheme at a joint meeting of governmental top officials and representatives of private sectors, which was held on March 4 at the Prime Minister’s Office, in Nagata-cho, Tokyo. Implementation of measures to increase farm incomes of producers, such as profitable marketing of agricultural products and price reductions of farm inputs, will be a key point of the self-reform scheme, Choe Okuno stressed. He also told participants in the meeting that JA-ZENCHU plans to further promote collaboration with KEIDANREN (Japan Business Federation), an … Continue reading
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【News】 ZEN-NOH to boost farm exports more than 12 billion yen by 2018 mainly from its new Singapore base (March 3, 2016)
ZEN-NOH (National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations), a business organization of agricultural cooperatives (JA) in Japan, decided to establish a model overseas base in Singapore and build up an effective system for marketing Japanese farm products from the base by 2018. In a next three-three plan beginning from April 2016, ZEN-NOH will promote exports of farm products shipped from Japan via its overseas base by improving processing facilities in Singapore as well as by expanding a network of distribution channels for Japanese products in the Asian region during the next three years. The JA’s national organization will carry out pilot projects for marketing Japanese agricultural products in various countries in … Continue reading
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【News】 Members of Female Farmer Project demonstrate their achievements during past three years (Feb. 28, 2016)
Members of Female Farmer Project celebrated its third anniversary at a gathering held on Feb. 27 at Tokyo to exchange views on achievements of their activities during past three years. The Project, a nationwide network of young female farmers, has now increased their members up to 400 females by ten times since it was organized under the leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 2013. It has also 25 support members of agricultural companies. The members participated in the Tokyo gathering, sponsored by NHK Educational Corporation, to share reports on their activities including collaborations with the support members of farm-related companies. These companies have accepted some of … Continue reading
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