Japan’s food exports rose for the seventh consecutive month in September, thanks to largely to appetite for wagyu beef and fruits in neighboring Asian countries, official data has showed.
Total shipments of agriculture products, processed foods and seafood soared 14% to 79.2 billion yen in...
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Tokyo’s Nerima Ward will host the world’s first Urban Agriculture World Summit (UAWS), which will be held from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 next year, looking to urban farming as providers of vital ecosystems services in major metropolitan areas.
With limited land, urban farms also offer the...
2018.11.29
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During his groundbreaking visit Beijing in October, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said that China may ease its import restrictions on certain Japanese agriculture products, which has been placed in since the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
“China said it will consider easing the...
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A recent survey has revealed that crops damaged by wildlife invasions in Japan fell 5 percent from a year earlier, as the central government and local authorities encouraged trapping and hunting wild animals such as boars and deer.
Economic losses caused by wildlife was estimated at 16.4 billion...
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On November 14, 2018, the Dairy Farmers’ Political Federation of Japan (Nihon Rakuno Seiji Renmei) gathered at the LDP headquarters in Nagata-cho, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo, to announce the launch of the initiatives for maintaining and developing small- and medium-sized businesses-most of them run...
2018.11.29
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JBA Risk Management (JBA), global leader in risk management, has launched a new India Crop catastrophe model for the insurance market
JBA has collaborated with Chaucer through its platform in Singapore to develop a new probabilistic crop model for the Indian agriculture insurance market.
The...
2018.11.29
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Canada-based Avivagen Inc, which specialises in developing and commercialising products for livestock, companion animal and human applications, has entered into a distribution agreement for Vivamune™ Health Chews in the Vietnamese market with Viphavet Co Ltd
Based in Ho Chi Minh City,...
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Sunjin Group invest 25 million in 4th facility in Vietnam that can produce 240,000 tons annually
Sunjin Group from the Republic of Korea introduced its new animal feed factory, which can produce 240,000 tons of animal feed annually at Dong Van IV Industrial Park, in Kim Bang district,...