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Japanese harvest Nebraska know-how
By Tammy Kaup
Doc, Luke and Pocky may wear western boots,
belts and blue jeans, but they are not typical
Nebraska farmers. The young men are Japanese
farmers participating in a UNL agricultural training
program.
Doc, known in Japan as Hiroshi Nishimura, began
the two-year program last year as a trainee at Hill
Hatchery in Lincoln. He said he heard about the
program from a friend who had been involved in it
several years ago.
About 0 Japanese students attend the 12-week
livestock and poultry production course offered by
the UNL College of Agriculture. During the course,
the farmers live with host families in Lincoln.
Nishimura said students are selected through
written examinations and personal interviews. The
trainees, who range in age from 20 to 27 years old,
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Luke, known in Japan as Kiichi Nishikawa, said he
thinks American agriculture is possibly the best In
the world. Although soil differences may make some
American farming methods impossible in
Japan, Nishikawa said, the American farmer's way
of thinking can be brought there.
'There is lots to learn here, but it is different from
Japan," Nishikawa said.
For example, Nishikawa said, the American farm
er thinks about production and selling methods. In
contrast, he said, Japanese farmers think only of
production.
He said each Japanese farm averages only about
2.5 acres. Expansion is difficult because of small
profits and because land ownerships stay within
families. Nishikawa said most farmers must have a
job outside the farm.
However, northern Japan has larger farms, like
those in the United States. Farmers use more
machinery and they raise beef and dairy cattle, he
said.
Pocky, known in Japan as Soichi Horigome, said
Japan imports about 30 percent of its food and 70
percent of its grain. He said his country's major crop,
is paddy rice.
The Japanese often eat rice three times a day
every day, compared to the variety of food eaten in
the United States, Nishikawa said. Although he likes
American food, Nishikawa said he does miss Jap
anese raw fish.
Nishimura said Japanese working relationships
differ from those in America. In Japan, he said,
people cooperate more, possibly because they work
for the good of a company rather than only for
themselves.
Horigome said he thinks American young people
are more independent than Japanese youth. This is
especially true of young American women, Nishik
awa said.
Dwight Stephens, a UNL visiting animal science
professor and academic director of the training
program, said that the trainees spend a year on a
U.S. farm or ranch to get practical experience before
taking the UNL course. They work with cattle, poul
try or swine before going to UNL. Students who pass
receive eight hours of college credit.
Since the program began 18 years ago, 750 stu
dents have completed the course. Stevens said this
year's Jan. 9 to March 30 course is his 12th. He said
he spent three weeks in Japan visiting 70 former
UNL students, and most had become agricultural
leaders of their country.
Nishikawa said Japanese students will share
some of their country with Nebraskans at a culture
night Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Nebraska Center
auditorium. Nishikawa, chairman of the culture
night, said students will demonstrate their abilities
in fencing, cheerleading, paper folding, variations of
Japanese writing, country music, Japanese magic,
and other activities.
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