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【News】 AEON starts quality assurance for cut flowers (Oct. 25, 2013)
Since the middle of this month, AEON Co., Ltd. began selling cut flowers with five-day quality assurance in 270 stores nationwide. It is attracting attention of flower growers and other retailers as the first such attempt by a major nationwide supermarket chain. When selling cut flowers, the stores will offer customers a small bag of quality preserver and explain appropriate ways to take care of them, including keeping water and vases clean. If the flowers wither within five days from purchase, the stores will either pay back the money or replace the flowers. Masahiko Kakitsubata, director of gardening greenery products department at AEON, says they hope to seek new customers … Continue reading
【Series】 Facing the forests – situations in Europe : Part 7 – Bavaria, Germany (Oct. 24, 2013)
Yuu Kawasaki 27 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, radioactive cesium exceeding the limits set by the European Union is still detected from wild boars captured in the state of Bavaria, Germany, some 1,500 km west-southwest of the nuclear plant. The EU sets a maximum limit for cesium in game meat of 600 becquerels per kilogram. Germany legally approves game meat trading by individuals, but after the nuclear disaster, it banned under the Atomic Energy Act sales of game meat which exceeds the limit for cesium. It obligated hunters to incinerate such game meat with compensation from the federal and local governments. There are 112 public or … Continue reading
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【News】 Only 27 percent of imported rice purchased in the second bidding of the year (Oct. 24, 2013)
Only 6,767 tons, or 27 percent of total imported rice amounting to 25,000 tons, were purchased through the second simultaneous buy-and-sell (SBS) orders conducted in fiscal 2013, amid lowering prices of domestically-grown rice, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced Tuesday, October 22. Purchases of rice imported under the minimum access scheme continued to fall short of the expected trading amount, following the first SBS trading conducted this year. It is the first time since fiscal 2010 that purchases of imported rice continue to be less than the expected trading volume. Traders predict that transactions will continue to be sluggish, as prices of domestically-grown rice remain low and … Continue reading
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【News】 Research institute develops technology to turn rice into gel-type substitute of wheat flour (Oct. 23, 2013)
In an effort to increase consumption of rice, a research institute based in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, developed a technology to create a gel-like material from rice which can be used as a substitute for wheat flour, the institute announced Tuesday, October 22. National Agriculture and Food Research Organization’s National Food Research Institute said it used high amylose rice with high starch content, such as Momiroman, a variety used mainly to produce rice flour or as feed for livestock. It created rice gel by heating rice until it becomes gruel-like, and mixing it at high speed. The rice gel can be used as a substitute for wheat flour to produce … Continue reading
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【News】 LDP will not disclose results of its examination on eliminating tariffs on key agricultural products, official says (Oct. 23, 2013)
Koya Nishikawa, head of the Liberal Democratic Party’s panel on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, said Monday, October 21, that the party does not plan to announce the results of examining effects of cutting tariffs until the talks are concluded. In a BS Fuji television program, Nishikawa said the party does not want to show Japan’s hands to the United States, as the TPP negotiations are expected to speed up towards the goal of striking a deal in the end of this year. But it is highly likely that farmers will be concerned over the confidentiality of the process all the more. Nishikawa said he will report the results … Continue reading
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