Date : August 3, 2012
Video Report: Press Tour “The New Era of Agriculture: Sustainable and Competitive Agriculture Developed by Youth Power” (August 3, 2012)
post date : 2013.08.24
Mr. Hiroshi Koizumi, Koizumi Farm, Kawasaki City
“The vegetables consumed in Japan right now are mostly well-known vegetables. Consumers are happy to buy those.
But we are cultivating new kinds of vegetables one after another because there will be a great demand for a new vegetable once it gathers attention through a TV program.”
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Professor Tamotsu Takemoto, School of Agriculture, Meiji University
“Young farmers are making farming rather trendy. Farmers nowadays make a choice to become farmers. Therefore, people who were born in a farm household and who have chosen to become farmers are full of vitality. That’s why agriculture is appealing.”
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Mr. Masahiko Tamaki, Director, Meiji University’s Kurokawa Farm
“In Japan, faculties of agriculture are very popular among students right now.
This farm has facilities including the most up-to-date agricultural technology used in urban areas, farmland for conventional farming, and farmland for organic agriculture which is popular these days, for students to practice a wide range of farming.”
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