date:Aug 17, 2021
votes 1,200 hectares to farming Shine Muscat grapes, compared with 1,800 hectares in South Korea and 53,000 in China.
A 2020 probe by the association also discovered that more than 30 Japanese farm products have been copied and cultivated overseas, including premium strawberries and citrus grown in Shizuoka Prefecture. The law that took effect in April imposes fines and prison terms for violators. But the transgressions have not subsided. Once seeds or seedlings are taken outside the country, i