“Wagyu Olympics” which judges the excellence of branded cattle from all over Japan took place.
Watch and try to unveil the mystery of Japanese Wagyu. English, French and Chinese Subtitles are available (Spoken only in Japanese).-
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【News】 Japanese farmers’ products likely to be primarily selected as food ingredients at athlete’s village for Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games (Dec. 4, 2016)
Standards for procurements of food ingredients to be used at Athlete’s Village and other facilities for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were revealed to the Japan Agricultural News on December 3. The standards have been drafted by the Sustainable Procurement Working Group of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. According to the drafted standards, domestically produced agricultural and livestock products are to be given priority in procurements of food ingredients at the Olympic Athlete’s Village and other related facilities. Those products will need to meet certification standards required by the Good Agricultural Practice (GAP). The Procurement Working Group also plans to advise the Athlete’s … Continue reading
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【News】 Japan and EU get near to final stage of Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations? (Dec. 3, 2016)
It is increasingly anticipated that negotiations on the Japan-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will make a sudden progress this month. Members of EU’s negotiating team will visit Japan next week starting December 4 in order to reach broad agreement on the EPA with their counterparts of the Japanese Government by the end of this year. Working-level talks will be held by officials of the EU Commission and Japanese Government in Tokyo. A farm trade is one of the controversial agendas in the EPA negotiations, in which EU has been requesting the Japanese Government to open a market of dairy products more than Japan will liberalize it when the Trans-Pacific … Continue reading
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【News】1,000 farmers on tractors gather in Seoul to call for President Park’s resignation (Nov. 26, 2016)
[Anseong, South Korea/ By Zhezhu Jin, The Japan Agricultural News Staff Writer] More than a thousand farming tractors gathered in Anseong city, Gyeonggi-do, in the suburb of Seoul on Nov. 25, as farmers from Gyeongsangnam-do and Jeollanam-do, the two southernmost provinces of South Korea, traveled north, heading towards the Blue House where the presidential office and residence are located. On their way to Seoul, they protested against President Park Geun-hye and her administration’s failure in farm policy, claiming that their business conditions are getting severer than ever because of plunging rice prices and market liberalization under free trade agreements signed with other countries. The farmers left Jeollanam-do on Nov. 15 … Continue reading
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【News】 Avian flu outbreaks confirmed in poultry houses in Aomori and Niigata prefectures (Nov. 30, 2016)
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) announced that highly contagious avian flu outbreaks were confirmed at a poultry farm in Sekikawa village, Niigata prefecture, as well as at a duck farm in Aomori city, Aomori prefecture, on November 29. The avian influenza outbreaks were confirmed in Japan for the first time in a year and ten months. Experts have given a warning to poultry farmers and others in the country that an overall epidemic prevention must be strengthened at every poultry farm, saying, “Judging from latest outbreaks in Japan and neighboring countries, it is clear that virus concentrations in our natural environment are getting higher. We have a … Continue reading
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【Opinion】The Regulatory Reform Promotion Council proposal – argument which ignores the cooperative principles (Nov. 22, 2016)
[By Tetsuro Shimizu, Director of Norinchukin Research Institute’s Basic Research Division] The recent proposals by a working group under the government’s Regulatory Reform Promotion Council are completely irrational, something that lacks understanding for the principles of joint sales and procurement which have been built up over the years by cooperatives. The proposals indicate the bargaining power could be taken away from farmers and primary agricultural coops which have organized a federation in order to gain an advantage in price negotiations. Following the conclusion of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico dismantled the National Company of Popular Substistence (CONASUPO), its state trader of agricultural products, and allowed major grain marketers … Continue reading
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