Hokkaido, already known as the “kingdom of dairy farming,” has earned a new accolade for its beef. According to the central ...

a professor at the Research Faculty of Agriculture at Hokkaido University. Farmers reported that having such precise information on the harvesting times increased profits by 10%. NARO is expanding ...

Harvested agricultural products will be processed there for shipment by truck to Tokachi Port and elsewhere for destinations outside Hokkaido. The Tokachi region accounts for about a quarter of ...

Biei is a town located at the center of Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. With its idyllic ... mostly working in dairy and agriculture, this sudden influx has brought some challenges.

Eight hundred to a thousand years later, most of Japan excluding Hokkaido had made a significant commitment to agriculture. This period (400 B.C. to A.D. 300) was the time of the Yayoi ...