Farmers' Newspaper and Japan Agricultural Newspaper Sign MOU to Strengthen Cooperation

Published Dec 13, 2024

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Korean and Japanese agricultural newspapers, led by Kim Jeong-sik of the Farmers’ Newspaper and Tamiya Kazushiro of the Japan Agricultural Newspaper, have entered into a business agreement aimed at addressing the shared challenges of agricultural aging, labor shortages, rising production costs, and climate change in their sectors. This partnership, marked by an MOU signing in Tokyo, focuses on article exchanges, personnel exchanges, and strengthening agricultural and rural development cooperation. The companies will also explore the use of 4th industrial revolution technologies in agriculture, improve the hometown donation system, and host symposiums to deepen their long-standing collaborative relationship, which dates back to 1984.

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Kim Jeong-sik, president of the Farmers’ Newspaper, and Tamiya Kazushiro, president of the Japan Agricultural Newspaper, signed a business agreement (MOU) on the 13th to ensure the continuous development of both companies and to respond quickly to the rapidly changing agricultural environment. At the MOU signing ceremony held at the Japan Agricultural Newspaper headquarters in Akihabara, Taito Ward, Tokyo, Japan, the two representatives agreed on three items: promoting article exchanges including digital fields, expanding personnel exchanges and mutual reporting, and strengthening cooperation related to agricultural and rural development in both countries. This is a measure for both companies to respond more efficiently to the reality that agriculture and rural areas in both Korea and Japan are facing similar problems due to the serious aging of farms, a decrease in agricultural labor force, rising production costs, and increasingly severe climate change and digitalization. The ...

Source: Nongmin