NIIGATA – The pledge by the Group of Seven farm chiefs this weekend to enhance efforts to secure stable food supplies poses both a challenge and an opportunity for Japan, a country in need of reform in its agriculture sector to lift low food-sufficiency.
Ministers and representatives from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States agreed during their two-day meeting in the city of Niigata to promote measures that address the world’s aging farmers.
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