Nippo-san
@nippou_
I think it’s a bit rude when a self-proclaimed agricultural consultant comes to the farm and approaches the farmer with an air of “You guys aren’t smart, I’m smart,” assuming that the farmers are probably of low educational background. . In rural Hokkaido, if you throw a stone at someone, you are considered a graduate of Hokkaido University. There are two people in that field too🧑🌾🧑🌾
I didn’t ask for this, but they just drive up in a rental car and shove their business cards at me. There is also a pattern of phone calls. It’s already the busy autumn farming season…😌
A lady from Hokkaido who sometimes does cosplay ☺️ She spends her time going back and forth between Hokkaido and Tokyo. It’s summer! It’s a field! Harvest! ! !
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Many farmers are actually highly educated.
@nippou_ Nowadays, the heirs of farmers are usually graduates of the Faculty of Agriculture of former imperial universities. The young owner of a tea farm in Omaezaki City, Shizuoka Prefecture, who has been purchasing tea directly for the past 20 years, is a graduate of Nagoya University’s Faculty of Agriculture.
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@nippou_ In Hokkaido, there is also Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, as well as various agricultural high schools and agricultural departments, which are of a higher level than most people think. By the way, is being an agricultural consultant such a profitable business?
@nippou_ Even in Tokyo, when I asked a gardener, he was an agricultural university graduate, and the person I know who prepares meat is also an agricultural university graduate. I have an acquaintance who grows tomatoes in Nagoya University. I hope that all producers, regardless of their educational background, continue working and I pray for their success. I want to eat something delicious.
As mentioned in “Silver Spoon,” if you make fun of agricultural high schools, you will be punished for their specialization, and people who graduated from agricultural high schools and went on to help their parents for a while, will ignore that and go to agricultural graduate schools overseas. I know people who have done research… x.com/nippou_/status…
When you go to the factory of a long-established manufacturer, you’ll see an old man in shabby work clothes who is a doctor from the University of Tokyo or Tokyo Institute of Technology… x.com/nippou_/status…
Regardless of your educational background, you have to be smart to be a farmer in this day and age.
I understand that many farmers these days are highly educated, but regardless of their educational background, agriculture is like conducting research and experiments every day, and they probably have a lot of knowledge and experience in specialized fields, so I respect those people. I think it’s only natural to pay for it. It’s boring to judge people only by their educational background. x.com/nippou_/status…
@nippou_ There is a person in my neighborhood who had planned to graduate from law school and become a lawyer, but after his father passed away he became a farmer to take over the family business. I think it’s a job that requires a lot of smarts, such as techniques for producing crops and how to brand your own farm so that it can be sold profitably through direct sales.
@nippou_ Farmers are statistics specialists, and even though they’re high school graduates, they’re smarter than most F-ranked universities. The only thing a dumb consultant can fool is a third-generation local small business owner.
@nippou_ On the night of my business trip, I have the opportunity to have a chat with the farmers I meet at a pub or other place. There are quite a few people with bright minds (even those with economics and business management brains) who are deeply knowledgeable about the problems of the world. “What did you major in?” “I’m a high school graduate.” I guess he started farming at an early age and didn’t choose to go to university. Don’t underestimate farmers 😊
@nippou_ Agricultural high schools these days are doing pretty demanding things (depending on the school), so if you were to discuss agriculture with a consultant from the city who has nothing to do with agriculture, the consultant would probably lose.
Japan is a red ocean in terms of fields because there are consultancy and think tank-like businesses such as the Agricultural Improvement Extension Center and the Agricultural Experiment Station that you can subscribe to permanently with only resident tax. .. x.com/nippou_/status…
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@nippou_ As there are many people whose family members are farmers and are business owners, farmers who cannot ship their products within 1-2 months, are easily influenced by nature, and struggle to commercialize and commercialize substandard crops are the ones who have poor business management. If they understood how difficult it is, they would never come, so we can judge that the management consultants who come to the farm don’t even understand how difficult it is.
@nippou_ It’s an idiot bias that says agriculture = the image of farmers in period dramas…don’t you know that deplorable agriculture is made up of complex academic research such as botany, biology, meteorology, geology…etc.
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@ba_mos_bearbell
@nippou_ Agriculture is a field in which it is difficult to systematize fields such as animals and plants, bacteria, viruses, soil, soil quality, climate, organic, inorganic, structure, genetics, and many others, and the rules of thumb tend to overturn. It’s deep.
