Selected Impromptu Comments at the Closing Ceremony of the Annual Review Conference of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for 2015-2016, and Directives Setting for 2016-17 [Unofficial Translation]
Establishing Agricultural Associations As for this point, I wish to affirm that shall we leave farmers unorganized their bargaining power would be small. In fact, our Japanese friends advised us to set up cooperatives a while ago and I told the Japanese Ambassador that the word “cooperative” had misled people by what happened under the…