HAKUI, ISHIKAWA PREF. – A young entrepreneur is striving to create a network of consumers and farmers promoting pesticide-free agricultural products.
Kazuma Nishitsuji, 33, was born into a salary worker’s family in Fukui Prefecture and had little to do with agriculture as a young boy. But he became interested in farming while in high school when idle rice paddies began to rise in number as the government pared back rice production.
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