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Despite the government's acknowledgement that the country's agricultural sector is in need of reform and transformation we believe that the piecemeal policies adopted and the lack of compromise in international free trade talks points to the gap between rhetoric and action. Indeed Japan's uncompromising stance in maintaining tariffs on imported rice wheat beef pork dairy and sugar - the country's sacred farm products list - might prove costly in the long run. With an ageing farmer population (the average age of a Japanese farmer is close to 70 years old) coupled with highly inefficient farming methods - usually constrained by the small plots of family run farms - it is no wonder why the agriculture employment is shrinking so rapidly. According to official figures people engaged in farming in Japan fell by 22.3% from 2005 to 2010 to reach 747000. T he Japanese agriculture industry faces a bleak future if it does not reinvent itself.
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There are however green shoots in the midst of this as illustrated by the rise of more public-private joint ventures in the agriculture space such as the new subsidiary of Sojitz Corp and Toyo Reizo Co (an affiliate with Mitsubishi Corp) which will have large-scale cultivation of greenhouse vegetables and blue fin tuna respectively in cooperation with agricultural cooperatives. A proliferation of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) use in agriculture should also bode well for the industry in helping it become more efficient. Indeed an increasing number of Japanese ICT firms are introducing cloud-based field monitoring systems as well as information portals for farmers. These firms include NEC Corp the Japanese electronics giant which works with Nepon Inc to develop user-friendly greenhouse monitoring systems. Another ICT-based collaboration is that of one between Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp which began testing a farm monitoring system using long-distance wireless communication...
The Japan Agribusiness Report features Business Monitor International (BMI)'s market assessment and independent forecasts for production consumption and trade across core agricultural commodities.
BMI's Japan Agribusiness Report includes independent commodity price forecasting and analysis for key agricultural outputs an overview of the agribusiness competitive landscape and a discussion of the downstream context of agricultural production in relation to country food consumption forecasts and composite food and beverage trade forecasts.
Key Benefits
* Use BMI's independent industry forecasts to test other views - a key input for successful planning in dynamic agribusiness markets.
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Coverage
BMI Industry View
An analytical summary of BMI's latest key industry forecasts and views highlighting recent changes and key risks to the industry outlook for agribusiness in Japan.
Industry SWOT Analysis
At-a-glance perspectives on the Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats facing the agricultural industry.
BMI Supply & Demand Forecasts
Divided into sections based on various diverse sectors in the agriculture market the chapter provides insight into each market's agricultural industry centred on sector forecasts to end-2018 for the consumption production and trade of key agricultural commodities.
Consumption forecasts are accompanied by a discussion of the main drivers of consumption growth: macroeconomic factors food processing trends price movements and increasingly demand from the non-food sector.
Production forecasts examine the trends influencing BMI's production outlook: global demand price increases public and private sector investment and agricultural efficiency improvements.
Trade forecasts are accompanied by a discussion of the factors influencing a country's trade in agricultural goods including domestic demand global prices and government trade policies.
BMI's forecasts are accompanied by a Risks- to-Outlook assessment which examines potential factors that could affect our existing forecast picture and the likelihood of their occurrence.
BMI's Commodity Price Analysis
Fundamental and technical analysis of the short- and medium-term price outlook for key agricultural commodities based on globally-recognised benchmarks.
Downstream Analysis
Analysis of headline food and drink forecasts including total food consumption per capita food consumption and total sector trade which provide important downstream intelligence for primary agricultural producers.
Featured Analysis
Includes relevant articles from BMI's daily analysis service. These can include long-term projections on agricultural imports and exports our perceptions of the impacts of economic slowdown on key companies and subsectors within the Agribusiness industry in a given country our analysis of fertilizer production as well as other relevant analysis of recent news and events on Store and Landing Pages.
Methodology & Sourcing
The Japan Agribusiness Report is based on an extensive network of multilateral organisations government departments industry associations chambers and company reports.
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