Helping to Resolve Social | 3 |
Issues through Our Business |
Procuring Food through a Sustai Cycle Project
Junwakei Chicken
Initiatives
Initiative 1
Social Issues
▼ | Improving Japan's self-sufficiency for |
animal proteins | |
▼ | Improving Japan's self-sufficiency for |
animal feed | |
▼ | Harmonious coexistence with local |
communities | |
▼ | Biodiversity (sustainability of breeds) |
▼ | Sustainable food production |
According to a 2018 survey, Japan's self-sufficiency rate for broilers (chickens used for meat) is relatively high at 64%. However, the self-sufficiency rate for pure Japanese broiler breeders (the parents) that have been selectively bred domestically from the grandparents is only about 1-2%, based on the number of chickens shipped. Avian flu, which has spread repeatedly in Japan and abroad in recent years, has the potential to halt the import of grandparent stock. If this happens, it could devastate the domestic chicken farming industry and cause chicken dishes to disappear from Japanese dining tables.
Born and Raised in Japan
In cooperation with an independent administrative agency in Hyogo Prefecture, we succeeded in breeding Junwakei chickens by crossing the Koyuki and Benizakura pure Japanese chicken breeds. Bred in Japan from grandparent stock, the Junwakei chicken brand was created for the domestic market for sustainable food self-sufficiency.
Foundation stock/Great-grandparents
Grandparents
Parent stock
Benizakura(Broiler breeders) Koyuki
Junwakei
Initiative 2
A Method of Raising Chickens That
Minimizes Their Stress
Using an up-to-datecomputer-based poultry management system, we strive to create a comfortable environment for our chickens. Since their brooding period is about 60 days, which is longer than other breeds, we take the time to raise them with care. That is why Junwakei chicken meat has the quality and deliciousness Japanese consumers demand, with tender, richly flavorful thigh meat and finely textured, soft and juicy breast meat.
Junwakei chicken Nichirei Fresh https://www.nichireifresh.co.jp/news/detail/?id=1333 (Japanese only) Reference : Specific Japanese Agricultural Standards (JAS) certification for sustainability for chicken meat and eggs https://www.maff.go.jp/j/jas/jas_kikaku/prdouga.html (Japanese only)
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nable Regional Agricultural and Livestock
Initiative 3
Sustainable Production Cycle Project
Using a state-of-the-arthigh-speed biomass processing plant, we can produce organic fertilizer in about eight hours, rather than the three months or more required by our former fermentation-based composting method. Manure from Junwakei chickens is processed into organic fertilizer for use in cultivating the feed-use rice that is then used in their feed.
- Most of the paddies we use to produce this feed-use rice are lying fallow due to rice production adjustments. The sustainable production cycle originating from Junwakei chicken is also helping to revitalize regional agriculture.
Sustainable Regional Agricultural and
Livestock Cycle through Junwakei Chicken ▼ Page 71
Japanese purebred chicken
Junwakei
The specialized
feed is used Feed-userice paddies
to raise Junwakei
chickens
Chicken manure is processed | ||||||||||
into organic fertilizer | ||||||||||
Sustainable Cycle | ||||||||||
The fertilizer is used | ||||||||||
in the rice paddies | ||||||||||
These rice paddies are used in a sustainable | ||||||||||
agricultural and livestock cycle initiative | ||||||||||
Unhulled feed-use | ||||||||||
The feed-use rice is stored and then | ||||||||||
rice harvested | ||||||||||
blended into feed | JA Shin-Iwate Hokubu Shiryo-yo | from the paddies |
Kome Puroject Iinkai (Feed-Use Rice Project Committee)
Karumai-machi Suiden Nogyo Suishin Kyogikai
(Karumai-machi Council for the Promotion of Rice Paddy Agriculture)
Hirono-cho Suiden Nogyo Suishin Kyogikai
(Hirono-cho Council for the Promotion of Rice Paddy Agriculture)
Initiative 4
Traceability for Safety and Reliability
To deliver safe and reliable chicken to consumers, every aspect from receipt of chicks to poultry farming records and management of vaccines and other drugs is conducted under a strict program. This enables traceability by lot back through the genealogy to foundation stock.
Value Provided
Providing chicken meat with consideration for resource recycling, food sustainability and animal welfare
First Specific Japanese Agricultural Standards (JAS) certification given to a poultry product for sustainability
Introductory video on Specific JAS sustainable
chickens and eggs (Japanese only)
Strategy Financial Story Creation Value Strategy Management
Achieving for Initiatives Strategy Business Society Sustainable a
Data
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