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【Editor’s column】 Ruling party’s landslide victory does not indicate public confidence in agricultural policies (Dec. 15, 2014)
Director General of Editorial Department, Hidenori Uchida The ruling Liberal Democratic Party won an overwhelming victory in the Lower House election, but the party should not take this as public support for agricultural policies, which are part of the Abenomics economic reform agenda touted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as a focus of campaign pledges. Debates on agricultural policies were low-keyed in the election campaigns. The LDP apparently avoided focusing on agricultural co-operatives reform and the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, both of which are included in the government’s “third arrow” of Abenomics. Although they are issues which would influence the future of agriculture and rural villages, voters had no … Continue reading
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【News】 Gourmet lunch for children! (Dec. 14, 2014)
Tetsuya Onda – 9th All Japan School Lunch Championship – Twelve couples of school lunch professionals show superb skills The final match to determine the best school lunch of the year was held at Kagawa Nutrition University in Toshima-ku, Tokyo, and the top 12 finalists, either school lunch centers or school dieticians for elementary and junior high schools, did their best to demonstrate their original menus all rich in local ingredients. The 9th All Japan School Lunch Championship was organized by a non-profit organization, Research and Institute for 21st Century, with an aim to support dietary education for Children. The 12 local champion teams came from Aomori Prefecture in the … Continue reading
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【News】 Mie University team develops biofuel from unconsumed tangerines (Dec. 6, 2014)
Yasuhiko Tateishi A research team of Mie University Graduate School of Bioresources, headed by Professor Hiroshi Tamaru, has developed a technology to turn tangerines into biobutanol, which can be used as a substitute for gasoline. Compared with ethanol, which is a widely-used alternative energy produced from biomass, butanol has higher energy output. It is also less corrosive than ethanol so there should be fewer problems using existing storage and handling infrastructure for gasoline. The fuel is created by putting damaged or rotten tangerines which have become unsuitable for sale into a tank unskinned, along with microorganisms. After cells are broken up to achieve saccharification, different kinds of microbes are … Continue reading
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【Editorial】 Look again at food crisis on World Soil Day (Dec. 5, 2014)
2015 is the year declared the International Year of Soils by the United Nations. The world is currently facing various issues including sustainable agricultural production, food security, biodiversity protection and poverty alleviation. The International Year of Soils aims to be a platform for raising awareness of the importance of soils in tackling such issues, taking into account that soils are being degraded. Dec. 5 is World Soil Day to kick off the campaign. Let us look again at the key role of soils as the basis of life. In December 2013, in response to a proposal by the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations General Assembly declared Dec. … Continue reading
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【News】 African countries called for urgent solution for the sharp decline of international cotton prices (Dec. 5, 2014)
Satoko Adachi－Geneva In the Doha Round (multilateral trade negotiations) of The World Trade Organization (WTO), four cotton-producing countries in West Africa, which have called for solutions for the problem of cotton subsidies, insisted Friday, Nov. 28, on the need for early settlement of the round because the most recent decline of the international cotton prices has severely affected the farmers in those countries. The problem of cotton subsidies is one of the pending issues among the least developed countries. The four countries, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, claimed that subsidies for cotton farmers in the United States and other countries led to overproduction and international price drop of … Continue reading
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