Annual Report on Agriculture Calls for Still Greater Acceleration of Reform
Basic Vision for Reform Includes Cross-Product Sector Direct Subsidies From 2007
Revised Animal Infectious Diseases Law Passed
MAFF, Ministries, Producers' Associations to Establish Liaison Council for Promotion of Agricultural Exports
Government to Select "Farming, Mountain and Fishing Villages Rising Up" as Models for Local Regeneration

MAFF Will Not Change Domestic Standards in Response to OIE's New Standards on Specified Risk Materials
MAFF Basic Policy on FTAs: Sensitive Items to be Treated as Exceptions
Ban on Imports of Chicken from US Lifted for All but 6 States

World's First Seedless Loquat Bred in Chiba
System to Predict Arrival of Rice Crop Pest Developed

FY 2004 Appropriate Production and Shipment Volumes for Mandarin Oranges and Apples