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【News】 Japanese minister denies cutting American beef tariffs below 10 percent (April 11, 2014)
Akira Amari, minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, denied on Thursday, April 10, media reports that Japan is considering cutting tariffs on American beef from the current 38.5 percent to below 10 percent. Amari told reporters before meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman for the second day that no specific tariff rates have been discussed. Concerning the ongoing Japan-U.S. bilateral negotiations on the TPP talks, Amari said the U.S. side is only referring to the basic principles of abolishing tariffs without exceptions and has not mentioned any specific figures. A senior official of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries also denied the reports, saying … Continue reading
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【News】 Japan-Australia EPA fuels worries over possible price decline in beef market (April 9, 2014)
Japan and Australia reached a basic accord on an economic partnership agreement on Monday, April 7, making it Japan’s first agreement with a major exporting nation of agricultural products. While the two nations agreed on the most controversial issue of tariffs on beef, the tariffs will be reduced gradually over a long period of time and Japan will be allowed to take a safeguard measure of raising the tariffs to the original level if imports exceed a certain level. This virtually means low tariffs will be applied only to imports within a certain quota. Such measures reflect the Japanあese government’s intention to minimize the impact of beef imports on … Continue reading
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【News】 Raptor tamer goes to the rescue of crops with wildlife damage risks (April 6, 2014)
Takuo Fukumoto The use of raptors is recently attracting attention as a new way to tackle crop damage by wild birds such as crows. Misato Ishibashi, a 19-year-old junior college student of Takeo, Saga Prefecture, is a falconer who helps farmers to protect their crops. Ishibashi first had the opportunity to see trained falcons when she was a third-grader in elementary school, and learned by herself how to train raptors. When she was a fifth-grader, she noticed that when she flew raptors over farmlands, they drove away crows which do harm to crops. As she gained more experience in falconry, she began to receive requests to fight off harmful … Continue reading
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【News】 Government’s revision of agriculture plan focuses on population decline (April 5, 2014)
As the government works to revise its basic plan for food, agriculture and rural areas, the main focus will be how to cope with the aging and population decline of the country and strengthen its food production capability. Due to the downward trend in population and the rapidly aging farm sector, the weakening of the nation’s food security has become more serious than ever. For Japan which depends on foreign countries for 60 percent of its food supply, raising the food self-sufficiency ratio remains the top priority issue, but it is also becoming increasingly important to consider the issue from the business side of farming. “It will be the … Continue reading
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【News】 Farmers call on ruling bloc to protect key farm items in Japan-Australia EPA (April 4, 2014)
The Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives (JA-Zenchu) and its national political body held a protest rally meeting on Thursday, April 3, in Tokyo to demand that sensitive agricultural products including beef be exempted from negotiations on Japan-Australia economic partnership agreement. As the two countries are aiming at reaching agreement prior to the summit meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott scheduled on Monday, April 7, some 700 representatives of farmers gathered to ask the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner New Komeito to keep the resolution adopted in the Diet urging the government to leave out the items in the negotiations for tariff … Continue reading
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