Donation Presentation Ceremony for the Sado Crested Ibis Supporting Rice Project held
2021.11.02
On October 2, 2021, a donation presentation ceremony for the Sado Crested Ibis Support Rice Project was held in Sado City, Niigata Prefecture. At the ceremony, on behalf of the Co-opdeli Group (Co-op Mirai, Ibaraki Co-op, Tochigi Co-op, Co-op Gunma, Co-op Nagano, Co-op Niigata, and Co-op Kuruco), Mr. HASEGAWA Satoshi, Chairman of Co-op Niigata, and Mr. YAMAGUCHI Sakae, Chairman of Co-op Kuruco, presented the inventory to Mr. WATANABE Ryugo, Mayor of Sado Island City, and Mr. NAGAI Mitsuru, President of JA Sado Management Committee.
From left to right is, Mr. HASEGAWA Satoshi, Chairman of Co-op Niigata, Mr. NAGAI Mitsuru, President of JA Sado Management Committee, Mr. WATANABE Ryugo, Mayor of Sado Island City, and Mr. YAMAGUCHI Sakae, Chairman of Co-op Kuruco
Co-opdeli Consumers' Co-operative Union has been selling Sado Island rice since 1994 and has continued to interact with the producers. In 2010, the "Sado Crested Ibis Supporting Rice Project" was launched. This project is an effort to donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of CO-OP Sanchoku Niigata Sado Koshihikari rice and its processed products to the "Sado Crested Ibis Environmental Improvement Fund." The donation is used for the conservation of the habitat of the crested ibis, and to create an environment for their feeding grounds.
In FY2021, a total of 3,343,878 yen was donated, bringing the project's cumulative donations to 29,591,770 yen over the past 11 years.
After the presentation ceremony, Co-op Niigata and Co-op Kuruco members and their children, officials and staff, producers, Sado City staff, and JA Sado staff harvested rice creating rice paddy art and conducted a survey of living creatures.
