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Monthly Archives: April 2014
【News】 Raptor tamer goes to the rescue of crops with wildlife damage risks (April 6, 2014)
Takuo Fukumoto The use of raptors is recently attracting attention as a new way to tackle crop damage by wild birds such as crows. Misato Ishibashi, a 19-year-old junior college student of Takeo, Saga Prefecture, is a falconer who helps farmers to protect their crops. Ishibashi first had the opportunity to see trained falcons when she was a third-grader in elementary school, and learned by herself how to train raptors. When she was a fifth-grader, she noticed that when she flew raptors over farmlands, they drove away crows which do harm to crops. As she gained more experience in falconry, she began to receive requests to fight off harmful … Continue reading
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【News】 Government’s revision of agriculture plan focuses on population decline (April 5, 2014)
As the government works to revise its basic plan for food, agriculture and rural areas, the main focus will be how to cope with the aging and population decline of the country and strengthen its food production capability. Due to the downward trend in population and the rapidly aging farm sector, the weakening of the nation’s food security has become more serious than ever. For Japan which depends on foreign countries for 60 percent of its food supply, raising the food self-sufficiency ratio remains the top priority issue, but it is also becoming increasingly important to consider the issue from the business side of farming. “It will be the … Continue reading
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【News】 Farmers call on ruling bloc to protect key farm items in Japan-Australia EPA (April 4, 2014)
The Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives (JA-Zenchu) and its national political body held a protest rally meeting on Thursday, April 3, in Tokyo to demand that sensitive agricultural products including beef be exempted from negotiations on Japan-Australia economic partnership agreement. As the two countries are aiming at reaching agreement prior to the summit meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott scheduled on Monday, April 7, some 700 representatives of farmers gathered to ask the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner New Komeito to keep the resolution adopted in the Diet urging the government to leave out the items in the negotiations for tariff … Continue reading
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【News】 Japan-Australia EPA fuels growing sense of crisis among domestic cattle breeders (April 3, 2014)
Hirobumi Senbongi Kumamoto As negotiators work to conclude the Japan-Australia economic partnership agreement, domestic cattle breeders are increasingly worried about the impact of possible reduction in tariffs on Australian beef. In Kumamoto Prefecture, a major beef production area, prices of Japanese brown cattle plummeted after the liberalization of Japan’s beef market in 1991 followed by reduction in tariffs on beef imports. As a result, the number of Japanese brown cattle raised in the prefecture dropped more than 80 percent compared with the time before the liberalization, and the number of beef producers also declined by 80 percent. Farmers, who had gone through such experience in the past, are strongly … Continue reading
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【News】 Australian beef competes with domestic Holstein beef, government tells Diet (April 2, 2014)
Beef imported from Australia competes directly with domestically-grown Holstein beef, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said Tuesday, April 1, indicating that the ongoing negotiations on the Japan-Australia economic partnership agreement should focus on minimizing the impact on Japan’s Holstein cattle breeders. In a meeting of the Diet’s Lower House agricultural committee, the ministry said the retail price of Australian beef was JPY203 per 100 g in fiscal 2012, JPY100 lower than domestic Holstein beef whose price was JPY303. Responding to a question by Hiroki Hayashi, member of the new opposition party Yuinotoh, the ministry explained that in terms of average wholesale prices of domestic beef in fiscal … Continue reading
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