Okinawa Prefecture is in the center of East Asia and has a subtropical climate. Boasting leading production of pineapples and mangoes in Japan, and mozuku seaweed and sea grapes .
Okinawa has favorable geographical location for exporting to East Asian countries. This enable us export to overseas markets stabilizing the profitability.
However, the standards and grades vary among our producers, cooperatives, and companies, causing confusion in the market. Further more, when they want to export, they lack the knowledge and know-how (pesticide regulations, sanitary control, conformity planning, labeling, export procedures, etc.) required by the importers making for them to export difficult.
In order to solve these problems, we will work with agricultural business entity in Okinawa, experts and export specialists outside Okinawa. We will build a production system for export and utilize the Okinawa International Logistics Hub that would enable us to expand our export market.
