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【News】 Rice produced in northern island Hokkaido is exported to Singapore along with snow-melted bottled water (July 28, 2016)
Hokuren, Hokkaido Economic Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives, launched a new business of exporting Hokkaido rice along with mineral water to Singapore. The bottled water is newly developed specially for boosting exports of Hokkaido rice to a tropical country of Singapore, which is named as “Daisetsuzan (literally, great snow mountain) water in Hokkaido.” At a number of supermarkets in Singapore, Hokkaido rice and its water are displayed for sale in the same section with guiding information saying “Enjoy taste of Hokkaido rice cooked with Hokkaido water.” By exporting bottled water with rice packages, Hokuren has raised a filling ratio of the containers for rice shipment, which made it possible to transport … Continue reading
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【News】 JA’s hospital develops medical instrument for checking walking postures of backache and knee-pain patients: Saku Central Hospital in Nagano prefecture (July 27, 2016)
Saku Central Hospital, operated by Nagano Prefectural Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives for Health and Welfare, based at Saku-shi, Nagano Prefecture, has developed a medical instrument to check whether walking postures are causing back and knee pains, in collaboration with a measuring instrument manufacturer in the city. The new instrument has made it possible for the doctor of the Hospital to instantly find out problems of walking postures of a patient and display them on the screen of a computer by checking the postures with sensors attached on the back and waist of the patient. These two sensors send information to the computer by detecting up and down movements of various … Continue reading
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【News】 Agricultural cooperatives in Hokkaido to offer loyalty program for frequent-shoppers at their farmer’s markets (July 26, 2016)
Hokkaido Prefectural Union of Agricultural Cooperatives made an announcement on July 25 that the Hokkaido agricultural cooperative group (JA group) has started offering its own loyalty program for frequent-shoppers at JA farmer’s markets by using application software (app) designed to run on smartphones. The Hokkaido JA group’s program is to award points to consumers visiting farmer’s markets and other registered places in the prefecture. The consumers will be entitled to participate with their accumulated points in a lottery of gifts such as fresh farm crops and livestock products. The loyalty program is expected to play a role of inviting wide-ranged people to rural areas, which, the JA group hopes, will … Continue reading
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【Opinion】 Robots may take over labor, but not our pride for farming (July 18, 2016)
By Yutaka Une, farmer and philosopher The development of artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly along a range of fronts, including igo and shogi software. Let us imagine what would happen if farming machines are equipped with the technology. An unmanned tractor programmed with the latest AI suddenly stops before going into a rice field. It judged the rice field is too small and is not worth cultivating in terms of efficiency. AI can’t understand that rural villages would be deteriorated unless farmlands – even those under unfavorable conditions – are cultivated. Love for the home region should be programmed into the robot in order to solve the problem. Then, … Continue reading
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【News】 Amami Oshima Island succeeds in eradicating oriental fruit flies (July 20, 2016)
There was a spreading feeling of relief among citrus farmers of Amami Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, as the emergency pest control for oriental fruit flies, a highly destructive pest of citrus plants, ended on Thursday, July 14. For seven months since December, when the farm ministry banned shipments of Tankan oranges outside the island, the farmers had to continue disposing of all fruits in an effort to get rid of the flies altogether. Now they are preparing for next year’s shipments with a strong determination not to let the species enter the island ever again. A severe shock hit the island in November last year, as the farm ministry … Continue reading
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