2024 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 2_9-2_15
The coordination unit at the Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries Export Promotion Research and Development Platform @ Kyushu/Okinawa is made up of research supporters from participating universities, including URA. Since its establishment, the Coordination Unit has been identifying issues in the export of agricultural, forestry and fishery products from participating companies. Starting in 2022, which is the start of the second phase of the Field for Knowledge Integration and Innovation (FKII), the platform secretariat will conduct interviews and questionnaires with participating companies, etc. in order to conduct new research and development. We planned the provision and matching venue as “KYU-OKI Caravan,” with the aim of building a research and development consortium to solve social issues by leveraging each university's research seeds and human networks.
One of the major issues identified in exporting agricultural products was countermeasures against sweet potato basal rot disease, which has been rampant in southern Kyushu since 2019. As the University of Miyazaki had started research in this field in 2019, this theme was carried out by the University of Miyazaki as a research group on Sweet potato foot rot caused by Diaporthe destruens, and we were able to obtain research funding.
