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Monthly Archives: October 2014
【News】 Take fresh colors with you to enjoy anytime, anywhere and forever (Oct. 12, 2014)
Kotaro Yamada – Dyeing clothes using gentians (Niimi-shi, Okayama Prefecture) – Farmers in Niimi-shi, Okayama Prefecture, are trying to convey the charm of their local specialty, gentians, by making gentian-dyed clothes their new local attraction. They color clothes using unmarketable gentians so that people can enjoy their colors anytime, anywhere and forever. The initiative was launched in 2012 by the Division of Flowers and Ornamental Plants of JA Ashin, an agricultural co-operative of Okayama Prefecture as a project to make use of unmarketable gentians, due to badly-shaped stems for example, particularly in pale purple and pink. The method they introduced is not something special. You put handpicked gentian petals into … Continue reading
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【News】 International Co-operative Alliance expresses “major concern” over Japan’s agricultural reform (Oct. 11, 2014)
Hayato Niki – Quebec, Canada The International Co-operative Alliance issued a statement on Thursday, Oct. 9, criticizing the Japanese government’s move to dismantle agricultural co-ops as “counterproductive to the national economy” and violating the principles of co-operatives. The intended legislation “would diminish the services offered to the farmers and the rural areas,” it said. “In particular, the intention to transform some of the cooperative structures into stock companies through demutualization is an unsound process.” The statement was announced after the ICA board discussed Japan’s intended restructuring of agricultural co-ops on Monday, Oct. 6, in Quebec. According to the statement, the board “unanimously approved” the report by the ICA’s study … Continue reading
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【News】 Japan agricultural co-op head and Canadian dairy farmers share concerns over TPP (Oct. 9, 2014)
Hayato Niki – Montreal, Canada Akira Banzai, president of the Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives (JA-Zenchu), and JA-Zenchu Vice President Toru Nakaya agreed with officials representing some 6,000 Canadian milk producers on the importance of being self-sufficient in key agricultural items including dairy products. In a meeting held in Montreal on Tuesday, Oct. 7, JA-Zenchu officials and Bruno Letendre, Chairman of Les Producteurs de lait du Québec (PLQ) and General Manager Alain Bourbeau shared their sense of crisis over the ministerial meeting of the Trans-Pacific Partnership member countries scheduled later this month, as they call for protection of domestic farming. “Lawmakers have pledged to protect key agricultural products in … Continue reading
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【Editorial】 Blue LED and agriculture – A bright future for next-generation lighting technology (Oct. 9, 2014)
This year’s Nobel Prize in physics will be presented to three Japan-born scientists who invented blue-light emitting diodes. Blue LEDs have also brought tremendous results to agriculture, including energy-saving and pest control effects and the ability to control growth, shape and nutrient composition of plants. Much more can be expected from future research on the technology. The three winners are Isamu Akasaki, professor emeritus of Meijo University, Shuji Nakamura, professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Hiroshi Amano, professor of Nagoya University. Though red and green diodes had been invented in the 1960s, creation of blue diodes was regarded as a difficult challenge to be overcome in … Continue reading
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【News】 Japanese agricultural co-op extends partnership with U.S. producer of non-GM corn (Oct. 7, 2014)
The National Federation of Agricultural Co-operative Associations (JA Zen-Noh) has decided to extend its five-year contract with Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. based in the United States, which will expire in 2015, by five years to stabilize supplies of non-genetically modified feed corn. Under the contract, JA Zen-Noh has been offering demand forecasts to Hi-Bred International so that the company can develop non-GMO corn seeds annually and supply the seeds to farmers in the U.S. which export corn to JA Zen-Noh. JA Zen-Noh and Hi-Bred International are expected to sign the new partnership agreement on Tuesday, Oct. 7, in the U.S. The agreement will enable JA Zen-Noh to secure stable … Continue reading
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