We held the fiscal year 2024 plan briefing session.

On Friday, April 12, we held a briefing session on the Reiwa 6 fiscal year plan at Kines Tenno in Shibata City.

The meeting began with opening remarks from Project Leader Ogasawara and Hiroyasu Takayama, Director of the Commerce and Industry Promotion Division of Shibata City. Following that, the leaders of each research and development project and their supervising faculty members presented this year’s research and development project plans.

In addition, Professor Kenichi Otsubo, a Specially Appointed Professor in the Faculty of Applied Life Sciences at Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences, who has been participating in the project since this fiscal year, gave a lecture on rice grading and taste evaluation.

To everyone who attended despite the short notice, thank you very much for taking the time out of your busy schedules at the start of the fiscal year.

In Reiwa 6, we will continue to move the project forward together with everyone who is supporting it.

We look forward to your continued support.

(Hiroyasu Takayama, Director, Commerce and Industry Promotion Division, Shibata City) (Overview of the Project: Professor Wataru Ogasawara)

(Research and Development Project 2: Associate Professor Yosuke Shida) (Research and Development Project 4: Assistant Professor Akihiro Nakamura)

(Research and Development Project 5: Assistant Professor Takahiro Watari) (Research and Development Project 6: Specially Appointed Professor Toru Nakamura (Chitose Research Institute))

(Human Resources Education: Shun Watanabe, Visiting Associate Professor (Chitose Research Institute)) (Research Profile: Kenichi Otsubo, Specially Appointed Professor, Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences)