“Wagyu Olympics” which judges the excellence of branded cattle from all over Japan took place.
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【News】 Dairy farmers suffer wheel loader thefts in Shizuoka prefecture (April 30, 2016)
Theft cases of wheel loaders, machines to move aside or load heavy materials, have been increasing at dairy farms where the loaders are used to mix up cow’s manure for production of organic fertilizers. Most of the wheel loaders targeted in robbery are old-fashioned models, which are commonly not installed with the global positioning system (GPS) as an anti-theft device. An overall picture of the theft cases has not been obtained. But these cases have occurred most frequently in Shizuoka prefecture. According to a prompt report of the Shizuoka Prefectural Police Department, 19 wheel loaders of livestock farmers were stolen during a period from January to late April, exceeding the … Continue reading
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【News】 Japanese hunters’ organization to launch Drone for wildlife population survey (April 28, 2016)
Japan Hunters Association, Dainihon Ryouyukai, headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, plans to conduct a survey of the population of wild animals such as Japanese deer and wild boars with a Drone, a small unmanned aerial vehicle. A new system has been developed for counting a number of wild animals from the sky. More accurate researches on the wildlife population are expected to be useful for effective measures to capture crop-raiding wild animals. In a traditional survey of the wildlife population, a number of wild animals including Japanese deer is estimated by various ways such as a visual inspection of animal’s population and herds, finding of their dungs and footprints, and calculations … Continue reading
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【News】 Kale, the superfood, no longer bitter and awful vegetable People eat kale in soup or law in salad for beauty benefits (Apr. 25, 2016)
Kale is no longer just an ingredient of bitter unpleasant aojiru green juice. Today, it’s cool to eat kale salad or kale soup for its super high nutrition value above all. It’s 50 times richer in beta-carotene than cabbage (Beta-carotene helps maintain healthy skin.) The popularity of kale is as a superfood is growing in Japan mainly among young beauty-conscious women, following the endorsement of models and celebrities at home and abroad.
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【News】 Agricultural cooperative’s welfare facility continuously provides care services seven days a week in Kumamoto earthquake-hit area (April 28, 2016)
A nursing care service facility of Kamimashiki Agricultural Cooperative (JA), called JA welfare center located at Yamato-cho in Kumamoto prefecture, has been continuously providing services for aged people living in JA’s area seven days a week since the powerful earthquake struck the Kumamoto prefecture on April 14. At the JA welfare center, water supply was temporarily suspended and some of its facilities were also damaged by the continuous aftershocks. Even under such conditions, its seven-day service provision of two meals deliveries to 250 aged people per day as well as home-visit care has not been suspended. Right after the earthquake hardly hit the area, Shioko Kita, general manager of the … Continue reading
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【News】 Aso Agricultural Cooperative’s member farmers forced to cancel rice planting in paddy fields cracked by the earthquake, Kumamoto prefecture (April 27, 2016)
A number of rice producers have been forced to cancel rice seedling transplanting in some of their paddy fields due to damages caused by the Kumamoto earthquake in the territory of Aso Agricultural Cooperative (JA), where most of rice producers had already got prepared for the planting works. Shunsuke Takafuji, 43, who planned to grow rice in his 14 hectare farmlands in Aso-shi, cannot hide his disappointment saying “I am afraid seedling transplanting might be done only in the half of my paddy fields this year. Assuming the worst case scenario, it could be less than thirty percent.” In the JA Aso area deadly hit by the second powerful earthquake … Continue reading
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