Yoshihisa Godo,
Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
There are nearly 60,000 breeders of beef cattle in Japan1. They play an essential role in the meat industry and create important job opportunities in rural areas. Most cattle breeders are small-sized family...
Yoshihisa Godo
Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
INTRODUCTION
Although Japan is the third largest beef importing country in the world (US Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Traders), with imports accounting for nearly 60% of domestic beef...
Kunio Nishikawa
College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Japan
INTRODUCTION
We translated a pamphlet, “New Policy for Agriculture and Rural Areas is beginning!!”, Previously, we translated pages 1-5. This time, we have translated pages 6-11.
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Japan’s food self-sufficiency ratio
Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Yoshihisa Godo
INTRODUCTION
Mass media often treat Japanese agricultural cooperatives as organizations of farmers1. Indeed, almost all farmers in Japan belong to agricultural cooperatives. Article 1 of the...
Akihiko Hirasawa
Norinchukin Research Institute co., ltd
1-1-12, Uchikanda, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 101-0047 Japan
e-mail: akihiko@nochuri.co.jp
ABSTRACT
Agricultural land reform in the aftermath of WWII generated agricultural structure of Japan with vast number of small...
