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【News】 Rice price dip sparks nationwide protests and demonstrations in South Korea (Sep. 27, 2016)
[Jeonbuk, South Korea, by Jin Zhezhu, Maki Kondo, The Japan Agricultural News Reporters] Rice prices in South Korea dipped to the level of 30 years ago, causing a furor among local farmers. A nationwide association of 3 million South Korean farmers, the Korean Peasants League (KPL), has issued a remonstrance on September 25 and the protests are spreading all over the country with local rice farmers plowing out their preharvest rice using their own trucks or gathering in Soul to attend massive street demonstrations. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan highly praises the rice farming of the neighboring country, saying that the cost of growing rice in … Continue reading
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【News】 New method for preparing rice SGS feed developed by Tohoku Agricultural Research Center in Iwate prefecture (Oct. 4, 2016)
Tohoku Agricultural Research Center operated by National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (TARC/NARO), based at Morioka city in Iwate prefecture, was recently successful in devising a simple method for preparing feedstuff of unhulled rice soft-grain-silage (SGS) to reduce working hours to less than half the existing method. It is a new method for preparing the rice SGS feed by wrapping the whole bulk bag, called a flexible container, of raw materials or feed rice grains. At a stage of wrapping the bulk container, procedures of deflating and sealing the container take a lot of time in an existing method, which works are not required in the new method. It will … Continue reading
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【News】 Enjoy tasting “Sukiyaki” with Japanese fresh eggs in Singapore: Quarantine regulations loosened on October 1 (Oct. 4, 2016)
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) made an announcement on September 30 that it will be possible for travelers visiting Singapore, including inbound tourists returning to the country, to carry fresh hen eggs produced in Japan with them as their souvenirs from October 1. Commercial exports of the Japanese eggs for sales to Singapore have already been allowed. And it is now approved to bring those eggs for personal consumption from Japan to Singapore, if they are labelled with a carry-on certificate issued by MAFF’s Animal Quarantine Service. The animal quarantine offices of Japan and Singapore have allowed international tourists to bring Japanese beef into Singapore as a … Continue reading
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【News】 Rice production to be reduced in 2016 season in spite of “slightly better” crop index 103 (Oct. 1, 2016)
The nationwide rice crop index stood at 103 as of September 15, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) announced on September 30. Yields of rice produced in the current year are regarded as “slightly better” than an average crop index of 100 for the first time in three years. Niigata prefecture hit the highest index of 108 among 47 prefectures in the country. As for a regional crop index, the Hokuriku region including Niigata prefecture, located in the northwestern part of the main island of Japan, recorded the highest index of 107, followed by 103 of the Hokkaido region and 102 of the Tohoku region. Farmers could enjoy … Continue reading
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【News】Noh no IKEBANA: Let’s have fun choosing containers (2) Deep containers for graceful loose arrangement (Sep. 2, 2016)
The end of the summer <”Noh no Ikebana” is an art of arranging agricultural pThe end of the summerroducts together with agricultural implements and other familiar instruments. It’s a type of Ikebana but mainly for farmers. The series “Noh no Ikebana” will show you how to best feature the materials and containers you choose, with the help of fans of this style of Ikebana nationwide.> Arrangements with deep, large containers with a wide opening such as ittomasu (a large wooden bucket to measure rice), seoikago (a bamboo pannier) and a hibachi (a porcelain brazier) have strong impact, and they’ll be good event floral decors. Just having one arrangement is already … Continue reading
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