ZEN-NOH (National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Association) or a national business organization of agricultural cooperatives (JAs) held a national convention of farm management advisors of agricultural cooperatives, who are called “Team for Agricultural Coordination” or TAC providing guidance to core farmers through maintaining face-to-face interactions with those farmers, at Yokohama city on November 17.
Some 580 members of TACs and directors of agricultural cooperatives come to Yokohama from various part of Japan to join the national convention named “2016 Convention for TAC Power-up.”
At a ceremony of the convention, Kitabiwako Agricultural Cooperative in Shiga prefecture received ZEN-NOH president’s award, a supreme award for the most excellent TAC team of the year 2016.
With a view to accelerating a self-reform movement of the JA group, participants in the convention renewed their determination to play their role as a driving force for vitalizing agricultural communities by increasing farm incomes of core farmers in their respective regions.
At the award ceremony of the convention, Yoshimi Nakano, president of ZEN-NOH, praised achievements made by TACs of other six agricultural cooperatives as well as by eight farm management advisors selected from among TAC members in the country.
At the JA Kitabiwako, a special project team is set up by its TAC members who have worked out respective plans to improve farm management for every core farmers for the purpose of increasing their agricultural incomes on the basis of repeated deliberations with members of JA’s youth organization.
Achievements of the project team, whose members have attached importance particularly to new ideas and opinions of young farmers, were most appreciated and provided with the ZEN-NOH president’s award.