Chinese Stealing Grapes

[Froggy]

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Ag...4&pub_date=20220706090000&seq_num=14&si=44594

Shine Muscat grape smuggling to China costs Japan $70m a year
Farm ministry reckons losses as it seeks to better protect registered varieties

Tourists pick Shine Muscat grapes in the central Japanese city of Kofu. (Photo by Masayuki Kozono)
SATSUKI KANEKO, Nikkei staff writerJuly 6, 2022 02:00 JST

TOKYO -- Japan suffers more than 10 billion yen ($73.8 million) in lost earnings yearly from premium Shine Muscat grapes improperly brought to China, the Japanese farm ministry estimates in a new report.

Smuggling of the government-registered variety appears to have begun in 2016, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, which estimates that China had 30 times more area under Shine Muscat cultivation than Japan in 2020.

The large white table grapes took 18 years to go from initial trials to a registered variety in 2006. A team of 13 researchers was involved in the effort. Japan sees such premium brands as crucial to its plan for increasing farm and fisheries exports.

Shine Muscat exports to China are blocked by quarantine rules. If Chinese growers had purchased seeds and seedlings through legitimate channels, they would be paying over 10 billion yen a year to stock their vineyards, the ministry estimates. More overseas farmers say they wish to purchase Japan's high-quality plant varieties through proper channels.

The ministry aims to create a body in 2023 for managing agricultural intellectual property (IP) on behalf of breeders. An expert panel commissioned in May will study ways to monitor for smuggling and provide support until varieties are registered. An interim report is due out this summer.

Grape smuggling is rampant for premium varieties like Shine Muscat, according to Japan's farm ministry. (Photo by Hideaki Naito)

A 2021 law allows breeders of plant varieties to designate export markets, and it provides for legal action when these choices are violated.

But in practice it is difficult for individuals and small businesses that developed plant varieties to bring their cases before the court, and monitoring for improper use of protected seeds and seedlings is challenging, experts say.

European countries provide models for Japan's effort to control agricultural IP risk. France's Sicasov, a cooperative company founded by plant breeders, collects tens of millions of euros a year in royalties. Belgium's AIB has protected seed IP since 2008.

 

[SBFNews]

Thanks to China, we now have Shine Muscat grapes from China in NTUC, Sheng Siong and neighborhood fruit stalls at affordable prices. The difference is $35 vs $12. Almost the same quality but Japan ones taste slightly better. So the Tiong thieves did not do a thorough stealing job. KNN.

 

[SBFNews]

Just to add why the Tiong did a half fuck steal job..If you eat the Tiong produced Muscat version, once in a while you get seed in the grape. The Japan version is 100% no seed.

 

[Eisenhut]

Knn China Wine is real !!!

 

[Chase]

AVA should check the chinese grapes for excessive use of pesticides. A friend's wife work in AVA and she almost don't dare to eat veges from Malaysia and Chinese.

 

[SBFNews]

AVA should check the chinese grapes for excessive use of pesticides. A friend's wife work in AVA and she almost don't dare to eat veges from Malaysia and Chinese.

Whatever vegetables you buy whether China, Malaysia, Singapore etc or whether organic or not organic, make sure you soak in water thoroughly, preferably for a few hours. That's a basic requirement. And that's why you should avoid eating caipng outside.

 

[Chase]

Whatever vegetables you buy whether China, Malaysia, Singapore etc or whether organic or not organic, make sure you soak in water thoroughly, preferably for a few hours. That's a basic requirement. And that's why you should avoid eating caipng outside.

caipeng veges never really wash, just dripped in water.

 

[SBFNews]

caipeng veges never washes, just dripped in water.

Exactly. So whatever vege you cooking at home, just soak for a few hours. Even those grown in Singapore. You think Singapore farmers so ethical meh.

 

[Loofydralb]

Don't understand why these Japs allow dogs in, in the first place?

 

[Eisenhut]

Aiya...至古以来, Japanese also belong to China and uses Chinese language what...somemore also eat rice, noodles with chopstick and chinese spoon

 

[syed putra]

Weird why japs name grape variety after a city in Oman.

 

[syed putra]

Aiya...至古以来, Japanese also belong to China and uses Chinese language what...somemore also eat rice, noodles with chopstick and chinese spoon

Its a mistake japs are trying to correct.

 

[laksaboy]

支那国 is excellent at lying, cheating and stealing.

 

[mudhatter]

Expected.

Japs stole name Muscat from Oman.

Tiongs stole grape Muscat from Japs

Slanties. Inferior beings.