Japan: MAFF Receives Budget Increase in JFY2019

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Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) received 2.43 trillion yen (roughly $21.8 billion) for its 2019 budget, a 5.6 percent increase over last year. Budgets were increased for disaster prevention/mitigation and the national land reinforcement program, the fisheries, farmland, and infrastructural improvement program, and support for livestock farmers. Additionally, free trade agreement countermeasures were funded by MAFF’s second 2018 supplementary budget of 502.7 billion yen ($4.5 billion). 

Japan: MAFF Receives Budget Increase in JFY2019

 

 

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