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【Opinion】Joint efforts vital to fight against intentions behind agricultural cooperatives reform (Sep. 27, 2016)
[By Yoichi Tashiro, professor emeritus at Otsuma Women’s University] With the Diet session opening, there is one thing we have to make clear before the start of deliberations on agricultural policies: exactly why and how agricultural cooperatives are attacked. The true intentions behind attacks on farm coops can be seen in the two unsettled issues listed in the Regulatory Reform Council’s second report released in June 2015. The first is to turn primary cooperatives’ credit business into branches and agents. The second is to demutualize institutions affiliated with agricultural cooperatives, including the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (ZEN-NOH), the Norinchukin Bank, and federations under the prefectural agricultural cooperative unions … Continue reading
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【News】 Naomi Watanabe help promote Aomori-grown apples in big way (Sep. 27, 2016)
On September 26, 2016, a council for promotion of Aomori-grown apples, Aomori Prefecture Apple Measure Council, held an event in Tokyo to promote apples grown in Aomori Prefecture, featuring a famous female comedian. The plus-size comedian Naomi Watanabe appeared on stage wearing a huge apple tree Afro wig. A commercial video, in which Watanabe takes a big powerful impressive bite of an apple, is now available online on the council’s website. The hot big comedienne who has earned 5 million fans on one social networking site said that she wants to make Aomori-grown apple famous all over the world. As a girl whose weight is over 100 kilograms, she said, … Continue reading
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【News】 Intellectual property right of potted gentians to be exported to EU growers by Hachimantai city government, Iwate prefecture (Oct. 16, 2016)
Hachimantai city government begins to export its “intellectual property right” by providing farmers in a member country of the European Union with its plant breeder’s rights, which enables European farmers to grow and market their potted gentians, special products of the city in Iwate prefecture. A market of potted flowers in EU is much bigger than that in Japan. It is banned by EU’s rules of plant epidemic prevention, however, for Japanese growers to directly ship potted flowers with soil attached to the market. The city government has found an alternative way of exporting its special product to the European market by selling seeds of gentians and plant breeder’s rights … Continue reading
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【News】 Special Committee begins deliberation whether to ratify TPP free trade pact: Ruling and opposite parties spar over deliberation time taking Diet dissolution into consideration (Oct.15, 2016)
The special committee of the House of Representatives began deliberation whether to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact and pass its related bills under the chairmanship of Ryu Shionoya on October 14. The administration and ruling parties are eager for approval of the TPP agreement, since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged that the TPP pact should be ratified at the current session of the Diet. On the other hand, opposite parties are poised to become more aggressive against the Shinzo Abe’s administration by carrying out thorough investigations not only into TPP pact’s consistency with the Diet’s resolution regarding the TPP trade negotiations, but also into dubious transactions … Continue reading
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【News】 “NoshoNavi” and ZEN-NOH to sponsor common platform hosting multiple cloud services for totally managing farming data (Oct. 13, 2016)
NoshoNavi Co., Ltd., established by agricultural corporations and farm-related organizations at Chuo-ku, Tokyo, will begin next April to sponsor a common “platform for Nosho (literally, professional farmers),” which is a network host of several providers of cloud computing service respectively operated by a farm machinery manufacturer and computer firms, in cooperation with ZEN-NOH (National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations), agricultural cooperatives’ national business organization. It will be possible for farmers and their organizations throughout the country to make access to information and data provided by those cloud systems through the common platform. The NoshoNavi expects some hundred farmers and agricultural corporations to be users of the platform for the time … Continue reading
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