To make Japanese children fall in love with Taiwan bananas, Taiwan and Japan signed a cooperation memorandum, and Ibaraki purchased 20,000 Taiwan bananas.

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Train Japanese consumers, starting with children! The Agriculture and Food Administration of the Council of Agriculture signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on strengthening Dietetic and Cultural Exchange and Development between the Agriculture and Food Administration of Ibaraki Prefecture and Kashiro City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan on July 24. Ibaraki City, Mito City and Okai-cho will jointly purchase 20, 000 bananas from Taiwan (more than 3 metric tons) as fruits for nutritious lunches in primary and secondary schools, and cook Steamed Rice with Red-Cooked Pork of Taiwan for students to eat on the first day of school. Let children experience the fruit and food culture from Taiwan.

Director Hu Zhongyi (left) and Mayor Nobuki Yamaguchi (right) Memorandum of Cooperation Photography / Lin Yijun

Through Kasama City, next year's East Olympic Games will promote Taiwan's agricultural products to athletes from all over the world.

Shinchu Yamaguchi said that Taiwan's bananas and mangoes are already available in Xia, a large-scale supermarket chain in Japan, and Kasumi will launch a series of banana marketing activities in early November this year, launching trial and promotional videos. Match the local activity "Kasumi Chrysanthemum Festival" for sale.

In addition to the supermarket chain Xia, Taiwan's agricultural products are sold in Shizuoka Railway supermarket and Osaka House supermarket chain, while Japan purchases Taiwan bananas to supply Japanese schoolchildren with lunch fruit. in addition to the signing of this cooperation in Ibaraki Prefecture, Mito City, and Dachi-cho, it has been cooperating with Shizuoka Prefecture since 105. Since 107, Toyama Prefecture and Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan have also followed suit to purchase bananas to supply group meals to primary and secondary schools under their jurisdiction. This time, the city took the initiative to approach the department and expressed its intention to follow the model of Toyama Prefecture last year.

Hu Zhongyi, director of agriculture and grain, said that the Ibaraki Prefecture Council passed a proposal in March last year for the city to set up an office in Taiwan, opening exchanges between Taiwan and Ibaraki prefecture and the city. At next year's 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, Kasama City is one of the stops of the Tokyo Olympic Golf tournament. Through this cooperation, there is also an opportunity to promote Taiwan's agricultural products to players from all over the world during the Eastern Olympic Games.

Taiwan and Ibaraki interact frequently, and agricultural and local creative experiences are exchanged.

Hu Zhongyi said that Ibaraki Prefecture is rich in agricultural, fishery and animal husbandry products, and the local culture, landscape and art are worth visiting, seeing a lot of crops, farmland landscape, and experiencing agricultural culture. Over the past four years, Taiwan has led a delegation to Lijian City to observe the education of food farmers, leisure agriculture, local creation, and so on. Taiwan has also invited Mayor Shimizuki Yamaguchi to come to Taiwan to share the experience of local creation.

Hu Zhongyi explained that Taiwan's bananas are very precious food for the older generation in Japan, especially those born before the war and now in their fifties and sixties, when they are sick, hiking, and sports meetings. therefore, we should also let today's Japanese children know that Taiwan's bananas are delicious. Taiwan is a tropical country and Japan is a temperate and subtropical country, and the types of crops do not conflict. Now that the market has opened up, today is the first step for exchanges. After that, we also hope to have more industrial and cultural exchanges with the city. I also hope that these exchanges can be institutionalized, long-term cooperation, and extended to other prefectures and cities in Japan.

At present, Taiwan has not lifted the ban on agricultural products in Ibaraki Prefecture. Nobuki Yamaguchi stressed that Ibaraki Prefecture has very correct information on food safety, which can prove the safety of food. I also hope that Taiwan can safely accept the agricultural products of Ibaraki Prefecture after testing the environment and agricultural products in Ibaraki Prefecture in the future. as Mayor Lijian, he only eats local ingredients and can stand here healthily, which is the best proof of food safety.

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