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【News】 Harvest after three years (Nov. 18, 2013)
Some farmers in Date, Fukushima Prefecture, resumed production of “anpokaki,” or dried persimmons, which was put on hold for three years because they feared radioactive fallout from the Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant. Satoshi Shishido, 61, head of the anpokaki production team of an agricultural cooperative in Date, started on Friday, November 15, the processing of “hachiya,” the main persimmon variety for anpokaki, including peeling, tying them onto drying ropes and fumigating them using sulphur. “Now we can finally make anpokaki,” Shishido said cheerfully. “I soon remembered the working procedures.” The persimmons are hung in rows in a drying room for roughly a month to become anpokaki. Anpokaki produced in Date … Continue reading
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【News】 Government plans to increase subsidies to farmers who grow rice for livestock feed (Nov. 15, 2013)
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said it plans to revise the individual-household income compensation system for farmers and increase payments to those who grow rice for livestock feed from the current JPY 80,000 per 10 ares. Currently, growers of rice for livestock feed nationwide receive the same amount of subsidies regardless of yields, but the ministry said it will provide more payments to those who harvest more than the yearly average yields of rice for human consumption in each region, with the aim of encouraging farmers to grow more rice for animal feed and make efforts to raise productivity. The ministry estimates that the nation has potential … Continue reading
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【Series】 The Common Agricultural Policy after 2013 in EU: Part 3 (Nov. 13, 2013)
EU’s new Common Agricultural Policy to focus on fairness Senior Staff Writer, Masaru Yamada The European Union’s new Common Agricultural Policy will be on the move in the beginning of next year. The new CAP will provide more protection for eco-friendly farms and young farmers, while cutting payments to large-scale farms owned by major companies, royal families and aristocrats. Amid the wavering European economy, the main focus of the two-year discussions has been how to gain support of taxpayers. The characteristics of the CAP as an income compensation system has weakened, and the new CAP places importance on maintaining fairness and benefiting farmers who contribute to the society. The … Continue reading
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【Series】 The Common Agricultural Policy after 2013 in EU: Part 2 (Nov. 13, 2013)
Interview with Dacian Ciolos, European Commissioner for Agricultural and Rural Development Q. What is the aim of introducing a new system under the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy to take account of environmental concerns? A. We should not focus only on short-term competition and economic benefits and use up natural resources which support agricultural sustainability. We adopted “greening,” direct payments to farmers who take environment protection measures. European consumers are asking for environmentally friendly agriculture, as well as food security and high-quality food products. Land is used by farmers to cultivate, but it is also a public possession of people as a whole. Q. Focus on environmental concerns seems … Continue reading
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【News】 Fukushima women work to restore farmlands with hopes of resuming farming (Nov. 12, 2013)
Some 80 women farmers stand in a long line to pick up debris on a field. They are members of the regional agriculture restoration cooperative in Odaka district of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture which was seriously hit by the March 2011 tsunami. Two years and eight months after the disaster, there are still 232 members, including those in their 80s, in the cooperative which was established to support people who hope to start farming again. Since the district is within the evacuation zone surrounding the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant and staying in the area overnight is prohibited, the restoration work can be done only in daytime. Cars swept away by … Continue reading
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