With a view to replacing a part of compound feeds for livestock animals, depending almost 100 percent upon imported feedstuff, with locally-produced corn for feed grains, Aomori Prefectural Government initiated a new project of implementing a demonstrative experiment for growing corn in paddy fields of 6 hectares this year.
By achieving the project, the Prefectural Government aims to work out a business model which is to initiate a chicken farm business of marketing high value-added poultry produced with corn for feed grains supplied by local farmers’ association.
Member farmers of the rice producers’ association are requested to implement a two-year corn-rice rotation in their paddy fields.
Farm management models for rice producers and poultry farmers will be worked out during these two years, after verifying economic feasibility of the crop rotation in paddy fields as well as feeding chicken with locally-grown grains of corn.
The demonstrative experiment for producing corn for feed grains is now being carried out in the prefectural government’s policy program named as a “pilot project for improving feedstuff self-sufficiency by growing corn for feed grains in paddy fields.”
The corn for feed grains is growing in the fields of “Dekishima-Mirai Community Farmers’ Association,” a farming corporation located at Tsugaru city in Aomori prefecture. Harvested grains of corn will be dried and stocked by a transportation company in the city.