Seed Crop and Weather Risks

「For vegetables, growing conditions, shipment volumes, and prices continue to fluctuate due to weather conditions such as high temperatures and rainfall. This has created an environment in which demand is expected for high-quality seeds and seedlings and agricultural materials to support stable production.」

「We maintain measures including securing sufficient inventory to support sales over a relatively long period in preparation for poor crop yields, and producing seeds in different regions and climates around the world to ensure a stable seed supply. However, poor harvests caused by abnormal weather and other factors could result in shortages of seeds and other products, disrupt sales, and adversely affect the performance of the Group.」

「Abnormal weather, including high temperatures and torrential rain caused by climate change, has affected crop growth and yields, resulting in continued instability.」

「Although rice prices remain high, sales volumes are trending downward and concern is growing over a future decline in prices, leaving farm management in an unstable situation.」

「In domestic agriculture, in addition to the effects of weather fluctuations such as high summer temperatures and localized heavy rainfall, factors that worsen crop yields, including large-scale outbreaks of pests, have occurred frequently,」

「We maintain measures including securing sufficient inventory to support sales over a relatively long period in preparation for poor crop yields, and producing seeds in different regions and climates around the world to ensure a stable seed supply. However, poor harvests caused by abnormal weather and other factors could result in shortages of seeds and other products, disrupt sales, and adversely affect the performance of the Group.」

「In addition to the longstanding issues facing domestic agriculture, including declining food consumption due to the declining birthrate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farming households, the destabilization of international conditions and the weak yen have dealt a major blow to domestic agriculture. As the costs of fertilizer, feed, agricultural materials and utilities have risen and remained elevated amid soaring resource and grain prices, prices for agricultural products such as fresh produce have failed to rise as expected, leaving farm management in an extremely difficult position.」

「In addition to the longstanding issues facing domestic agriculture, including declining food consumption due to the declining birthrate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farming households, numerous events affecting farm management have emerged, including higher costs due to soaring prices for imported feed and production inputs resulting from the weak yen, unstable crop yields associated with global warming and earlier harvest timing.」

「Unprecedented events, including unstable crop yields and fluctuations in harvesting periods due to abnormal weather, have been observed in various areas.」

「The effects of declining crop quality and unstable yields due to extreme heat are casting a shadow over farm management.」

「We maintain measures including securing sufficient inventory to support sales over a relatively long period in preparation for poor crop yields, and producing seeds in different regions and climates around the world to ensure a stable seed supply.」

「In addition to the longstanding issues facing domestic agriculture, including declining food consumption due to the declining birthrate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farming households, numerous negative factors emerged, including unfavorable summer weather and lower fresh-produce prices.」

「As symbolized by the heavy rainfall in the Kyushu region, precipitation was high and sunlight was insufficient, raising concerns over poor crop yields and revealing various factors that are destabilizing farm management.」

「In addition to the longstanding issues facing domestic agriculture, including declining food consumption due to the declining birthrate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farming households, numerous events with a major impact on farm management occurred, including a sharp decline in agricultural-product demand from the foodservice industry due to COVID-19, lower fresh-produce prices and the collapse of many agricultural facilities under heavy snowfall, particularly on the Sea of Japan side.」

「Farm management is becoming increasingly difficult as vegetable and fruit prices fell after favorable weather from early autumn led to a bumper harvest, in addition to sluggish demand from the restaurant industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic.」

「Events with a significant impact on farm management, including poor crop yields due to prolonged rain and surging vegetable prices, occurred frequently.」

「Insufficient sunlight in early summer and damage to agricultural crops from major typhoons, together with increased supplies of vegetables and fruit due to the warm winter, caused by reduced demand for commercial and processing use as fewer foreign visitors came to Japan and restaurant activity declined amid the COVID-19 pandemic, resulted in lower vegetable and fruit prices under the effects of both supply and demand,」

「Insufficient sunlight in early summer and damage to agricultural crops from major typhoons, together with increased supplies of vegetables and fruit due to the warm winter and reduced demand for commercial and processing use as fewer foreign visitors came to Japan and restaurant activity declined due to COVID-19, caused vegetable and fruit prices to fall under the effects of both supply and demand, putting pressure on farm management.」

「In addition to the longstanding issues facing domestic agriculture, including declining food consumption due to the declining birthrate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farming households, numerous factors destabilizing farm management emerged, including crop damage from insufficient sunshine in early summer and major typhoons, as well as an outbreak of swine cholera.」

「In addition to the longstanding issues facing domestic agriculture, including declining food consumption due to the declining birthrate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farming households, destabilizing factors for crop yields occurred frequently, with insufficient sunshine in the first half of this summer and extreme heat in the second half. More recently, typhoons caused extensive damage to agriculture, particularly in Chiba Prefecture, resulting in numerous negative factors.」

「Sales declined as production of seed yams for virus-free products suffered a poor harvest due to abnormal weather,」

「In addition to the longstanding issues facing domestic agriculture, including declining food consumption due to the declining birthrate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farming households, conditions changed rapidly: extreme heat caused poor crop yields and typhoons damaged agricultural facilities in summer, while favorable weather and a mild winter from autumn onward accelerated vegetable growth, and increased shipment volumes led to lower prices for fresh produce.」

「In addition to the longstanding issues facing domestic agriculture, including declining food consumption due to the declining birthrate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farming households, conditions changed rapidly: extreme heat and typhoons caused poor crop yields in summer, while favorable weather from autumn onward accelerated vegetable growth, and increased shipment volumes led to lower prices for fresh produce.」

「In addition to the longstanding issues facing domestic agriculture, including declining food consumption due to the declining birthrate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farming households, there are numerous destabilizing factors, including poor crop yields caused by unfavorable weather such as the torrential rains of July 2018, frequent typhoons and extreme heat.」

「Domestic agriculture faces numerous negative factors, including the long-standing issues of declining food consumption due to the declining birth rate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farmers, as well as poor crop yields caused by low winter temperatures and significant concern that the Trump administration, facing midterm elections in the autumn, will take a hard line in demanding the opening of agricultural markets,」

「In addition to the longstanding issues facing domestic agriculture, including declining food consumption due to the declining birthrate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farming households, various events that could negatively affect farm management have emerged, including poor crop yields caused by unfavorable weather and the TPP (Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement) concluded without the United States.」

「In addition to the longstanding issues facing domestic agriculture, including declining food consumption due to the declining birthrate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farming households, prolonged rain and typhoons have damaged crops, making farm management increasingly unstable.」

「In addition to the longstanding issues facing domestic agriculture, including declining food consumption due to the declining birthrate and aging population and a shortage of successors to farming households, concerns have arisen over poor crop yields caused by unfavorable summer weather.」

「Agricultural production was severely affected by heavy rainfall that struck Hokkaido and other areas, creating numerous factors that are putting pressure on farm management.」

「Production volume and quality are inherently highly dependent on weather and other natural conditions.」