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【News】 National Agriculture and Food Research Organization to evaluate risk factors in walking tractor-related fatalities (April 24, 2014)
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization will set on a three-year survey in fiscal 2014 to analyze risk factors behind deaths due to walking tractor accidents, in an effort to come up with safety measures. Walking tractors come in various sizes and structures, and are used in various situations including tilling, ploughing and hilling. The organization will analyze different causes of accidents, such as shifting into wrong gear, tractor overturning or handlebars suddenly jumping up. Walking tractor-related fatalities occupy only a little more than 10 percent of total agricultural work-related deaths, but they occupy nearly 20 percent of all agricultural machinery-related fatalities, the largest percentage next to deaths related … Continue reading
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【Editorial】 Japan must protect its key agricultural products (April 23, 2014)
U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Japan on Wednesday, April 23, and hold a summit meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the following day. One of the main issues on the agenda is the treatment of tariffs on Japan’s key agricultural products in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks. The United States continues to demand high-level market liberalization. We can never allow the government to make political decisions and largely compromise for the sake of reaching basic agreement. Farmers and citizens are holding protest rallies day after day in various places and asking the government to keep the resolutions approved by the Diet. Abe should meet Obama with … Continue reading
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【News】 U.S. urges Japan to set minimum import target for autos under TPP (April 21, 2014)
The United States is demanding that Japan set a yearly import target for American cars in the bilateral negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, it was learned Sunday. Sources close to the negotiations disclosed that the U.S. wants to introduce a system that would allow it to delay phase out of tariffs on Japanese automobiles by the number of years in which Japanese imports of U.S. autos fall below the target. This means unless Japan continues to import certain amount of U.S.-made automobiles every year, U.S. tariffs on Japanese cars will be maintained almost indefinitely. According to the sources, Japan has strongly rejected such requests, saying it cannot … Continue reading
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【News】 Japan and Australia agrees on low-tariff import quota for meat products (April 18, 2014)
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries disclosed details of the Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement on Thursday, April 17, including setting low-tariff import quota for key meat products to prevent the domestic industry from being damaged by a sharp rise in imports. But many worry that the agreement will result in influx of low-price Australian products, pressuring prices of domestic produce to decline. The ministry, which has already revealed details of the agreement concerning beef and cheese which are items of special interest, disclosed this time specific rules regarding seven sectors – beef offal and prepared products, pork, poultry, chicken eggs, dairy products, honey and livestock. An import quota … Continue reading
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【News】 Raw milk production drops in 2013 (April 16, 2014)
Domestic raw milk production totaled 7.186344 million tons in fiscal 2013, marking a year-on-year decline of 2 percent, Japan Dairy Council announced on Tuesday, April 15. The council attributed the drop in production to a decreasing number of milk cows, as many farmers squeezed or gave up dairy farming due to rising feed prices. Production of milk for manufacturing items with a longer shelf life such as butter and skimmed milk powder dropped 8.1 percent from a year before to 1.603945 tons. Such milk is used to keep supply-demand balance. As a result, the amount was 206,000 tons short of the production target for milk processed into dairy products. … Continue reading
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