INTRODUCTION
The Japan Agricultural Cooperative (JA) group has played a pivotal role in Japan’s agriculture while it has been criticized as the main factor which prevents the fundamental reform of agricultural structure and the trade liberalization in the era of free trade. The JA has...
Source: Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan
The "Agro-pesticide Act" was amended on 24 December, 2014. It intended to track the flow of agro-pesticides and to clarify the responsibilities of illegal drugs,...
Introduction
Wild animals pose problems to Japanese farmers, as they often enter farmlands and eat agricultural products. The damage caused by wild animals was recently estimated to cost farmers around 20 billion yen per year1. Electric fences are a popular countermeasure against wild animals....
INTRODUCTION
It is important for stabilizing rice farmer’s management to maintain the order of markets and to expand stable dealings between farmer’s organizations which engage in shipping rice and distributors on behalf of food industries. Recent shifts, however, has changed...
INTRODUCTION
Rice has occupied the position of national food for a long time in Japan, and the Japanese has taken the large part of their carbohydrates from it. Rice has been utilized for human consumption, and only the disposal of it has been used for feeds.
As the consumption of rice is...
