How serious money gets made in Japan as a farmer. I take you on a trip down to market.
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- High end high margin and professional access to market for the small-scale grower. Many farmers make some serious coin.
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Early next year i plan to expand my rural Japan cafe to include rescuing stray cats in my area to turn it into a unique Cat Cafe. Any help is very much appreciated.
www.buymeacoffee.com/realruraljapan
Thanks for the videos. The level of quality control is off the chart, It has to be appreciated by the customer getting the best of the best consistently. Wow.
Thanks, this was really interesting, those grapes look awesome 😊
Bless Machiko for putting up with you and us. The whole Shine Muscat Grapes story arc is very interesting.
really enjoyed following this grape saga :)
Farming, is an honourable activity.
Love these day in the life of, very wholesome and interesting :)
Interesting stuff, love it! Seeing the level of detail behind the scenes is why I don't question the quality of Japanese products.
Seems like the JA is very efficient, appreciate you telling people how it works and knowing farmers are getting paid decently for their hard work. Sorry that Michiko got some negative feedback, hope its better this time. Enjoying the grape saga
As a Dutchman who lives ( and works in the greenhouse ) in the area that got rich and big because of grapes being sold to England. ( and later tomatos, other vegtables, and now mainly plants for decoration )
This all sounds way to easy.
Currently I got dozens of grapes hanging from the branches in my garden, being eaten by the birds because it's simply way to much. lol.
a well, birds need good food too !
If I may ask, how much was state planning involved in your area when it came down to deciding which fruits/vegetables to grow for export? Are there specific mechanisms like farming cooperatives to prevent a glut of grapes or tomatoes so that farmers get adequate compensation in the Netherlands? thank you
@@sirzatyenen3200 haha, zero state planning involved. It's all market driven.
It basically all started with vegetables that had to be sold. So growers came together and started an auction house coorperation ( owned by the farmers/growers ) called 'Groenteveiling Westerlee' , buyers came to this place and placed bids on the vegetables to be sold. All via an auction system known as a Dutch auction, prices began high, and the bidder that called first, got the stuff for that price. It's an highly efficient and fast way of auctioning stuff. It's still being done this way, only now digital, even faster, and over larger distances, buyers don't have to be physically be here to bid, this helps us to reach more buyers and overall get a slightly better price.
Simply put, there are more buyers, so more competition for them. I guess we have this digital system for 10-15 years now. It's incredibly complicated.
But as time went by, the market shifted and changed, so now also flowers where being growed, that's when the flower growers also started their coorperation(s) , now known as FloraHolland, and it's MASSIVE.
The original vegetable auction house ceased to exist around 20 years ago I estimate. Most vegetables are being sold directly to the buyers now. Since growers, and buyers, both started to become larger and larger.
Small growers like in Japan are a thing of the past here, looonnnggg gone, sadly. I believe lots of small and diverse growers with lots of different produce make for a much better and stronger economy. The 'problem' that we have, is that we are all highly specialized in what we produce. So what we produce is excellent quality wise, but we also got A LOT of it. That's all good, as long as the market takes it, if the market shifts toward other goods, the grower has an instant problem.
Also the greenhouses are nowaday more or less optimized for 1 or 2 sorts of plants or vegetables. So all highly efficient, but also highly dependend on the market. A bit scary you might say.
You growers need to come together and do what we did more then 100years ago.
But I don't know what you mean with 'a glut of grapes for adequate compensation?'
Righ, JA provides all the logistics. The only way a small farmer could benefit from selling their produce is to become a medium/large farmer and have their own means of end-user logistics. So, basically substantial costs/human resources.
"JA" is a farming cooperative ?
It`s once again that time of the year when the kamemushi try getting inside the house to nest for winter. Time to get the tongs out, cut the tops off some pet bottles, and put water in them. Of all the insects we deal with, and there are many, kamemushi are probably 2nd on the list below termites.
Machiko’s previous grapes got some negative reviews on her sheet. You mentioned before in the previous video that the buyers love it when the farmers products are routinely graded in a positive manner.
Will this one review harm Machiko’s standing with buyers?
Of course
Always funny when you hear people say "Why don't you go direct to the customer?"
You're giving money to the JA for something more important than money: time, expertise and access to their network of buyers (and those buyers don't want to deal with you because as a small farmer you can't give them the volume of goods and reassurance of quality they need).
G'day Mate, Love these educational videos Thank Machiko San for letting us see the process and thanks for doing this. Great insight. I used to work at Flemington Markets many moons ago and I can't recall a JA type system as it was twenty four years ago when I worked there but I remember grading carrots so there must be a system. And I think in Australia Corporation's like Woollies and Coles would be paying sfa for produce and farmers are going under here. Not very helpful for our Aussie farmers. It's good to see the JA actually being real and helping the farmers there.
Cheers Mate
Started when people bought into the fallacy that one stop shopping was a smart idea and convenient. Drove away the grocers, bakers and butchers and now this what you get.
@@RealRuralJapan Yeah that's right 100%
Cheers Mate
Without farmers how are we going to be fed? Never grudge the money they make. If it's that lucrative, be a farmer (requires passsion).
The quality is amazing, in Australia, they would be drowned in chemicals.
food is life
and water.
Are there multiple market provider like JE in a region or has it all been consolidated? Do they work on a commission basis per sold box? Or do you pay a flat fee per box? Are they or are there wholesale buyers aswell?
Market forces decide everything.
Hey Steve quick question, besides doing like welding and some small engine/mechanical repair on the side of farming for a start up visa, do you feel there is any kind of a market for mowing grass and rice fields for the elderly farmers? Or even a market for reclaiming or "bush/brush" clearing abandoned land? I've been unable to find anything since most people's opinion is "don't touch the abandoned land" but do you believe there is a market for Co-ops, associations, or local governments to farm out the mowing or reclaiming land work since they most likely don't have the time, personal, or equipment to? Love the informative videos. Thanks for your hard work.
Cart before the horse. You haven’t even picked an area and you are asking for opinions from people about an area that may need this service that don’t even know about yourself. If you want to do snow shoveling for example an Okinawans opinion isn’t worth anything. There is an opportunity in everything and an idea is the easy part. Getting on the ground, meeting people, making connections etc in the area you choose in the first step to see if this particular thing might work.
This is the hard part people don’t want to do. This is my advice and to tell you anything other than do this research would be irresponsible.
This is such a fatherly advice :D. I think its a great answer!
Curious if you can help me do the math, from what I can figure my average potential in 3 years is ~4.5 million to 5.5 million yen a year. 1 acre rice fields, 20 white peach trees, ~150kg blueberries, 1/4acre vegetables. Does that sound about right to you?
If you seriously considering doing farming in Japan join my Patreon. If you are counting money based off this you aren’t even at first base of what you need to know. I know people with more than this that can’t make money and some with less that make a lot. This is not a good way to look at things.
Economy of scale....pretty simple stuff.
Do they fly those grapes to Singapore? This is perishable food.
It's a 5 hour flight.