{"id":7995,"date":"2025-09-26T08:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-farm-minister-koizumi-defends-grape-licensing-policy-after-backlash-over-shine-muscat-cultivation-talks-abroad\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:24:39","slug":"japan-farm-minister-koizumi-defends-grape-licensing-policy-after-backlash-over-shine-muscat-cultivation-talks-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-farm-minister-koizumi-defends-grape-licensing-policy-after-backlash-over-shine-muscat-cultivation-talks-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan farm minister Koizumi defends grape licensing policy after backlash over Shine Muscat cultivation talks abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TOKYO, Sept 26 — Japanese farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a top contender to become the next premier, downplayed criticism on Friday over his ministry’s handling of a licensing deal for a prized grape variety that sparked an official protest from producers.<\/p>\n

At a press conference the day before, the governor of Yamanashi prefecture, a major producer of Shine Muscat grapes, criticised the ministry for entering discussions with New Zealand about growing the prized fruit without the prior knowledge or input of producers.<\/p>\n

Governor Kotaro Nagasaki, along with a representative of the local agricultural cooperative, met with Koizumi to lodge the complaint and urge steps to expand the market for exports, rather than offering a cultivation licence for production abroad.<\/p>\n

Koizumi, who faces a key vote next week within the Liberal Democratic Party to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as its leader, said his ministry did not intend to grant a cultivation licence without consulting producers.<\/p>\n

“Governor Nagasaki has requested that we increase the number of countries to which Japan can export Shine Muscat grapes, and I completely agree,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We would not proceed with licensing without the understanding of producing regions and governors.”<\/p>\n

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He noted that granting licenses was a basic policy approach approved by the cabinet earlier this year for certain products.<\/p>\n

The Shine Muscat variety was developed over a period of about 30 years, starting in the late 1980s, by national agricultural bodies and has been marked as a promising export product.<\/p>\n

Its seedlings, however, were initially not protected outside Japan and made their way to China and South Korea, which are exporting the product to South-east Asia. Japan passed legislation in 2021 to restrict overseas sale of the seedlings. — Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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TOKYO, Sept 26 — Japanese farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a top contender to become the next premier, downplayed criticism on Friday over his ministry’s handling of a licensing deal for a prized grape variety that sparked an official protest from producers. At a press conference the day before, the governor of Yamanashi prefecture, a major…<\/p>\n

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