Mr. Tetsuro Ushikusa, Deputy Minister's Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, will be appointed as the chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development for the first time in Asia. I did.
The OECD, which has 37 member countries, mainly developed countries, has an "Agricultural Committee" that investigates and proposes global agricultural policies, and next year's chairman will be the first Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from Asia. It was decided.
Mr. Ushikusa told NHK before taking office that he said, "We must increase agricultural production as the population is expected to increase in the future."
On the other hand, he said, "We must avoid blindly increasing productivity and burdening the environment, and we need to ensure sustainability." Realization of environmentally friendly and sustainable agriculture. Showed the idea of working on.
Furthermore, the OECD is also active in saying that the United Nations Food System Summit will be held for the first time next year, saying, "What kind of contribution can be made in the fields of agriculture and food toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and SDGs?" He expressed his intention to discuss the results and propose the results to the summit.