Problems with the soybeans grown in Japan as ingredients of processed food from the viewpoint of tofu producers
2007
Kimura, A.(Marketing and Research Inst. for Agricultural Cooperative, Tokyo (Japan))
This study is required to overcome the problems with domestic soybeans. In this circumstance, the author discussed the current situation of the use of domestic soybeans and the evaluation and issues of soybeans as ingredients of processed food, based on the results of the interviews with 9 tofu producers inside Japan, with the purpose of using the study results as future references for producers and farmers' cooperatives to design measures for quality improvement. Consequently, it was found that tofu producers highly evaluate the safe and reliable image, high quality, and good taste of domestic soybeans, while being concerned about the instability of quality and sorting of domestic soybeans, and their unstable quantities and prices. In this study, the author clarified the details of such issues by referring to concrete cases.
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