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 Denichi Takii
President
Takii & Co.
Japan
These past few years, consumers are getting more
and more health conscious and farmers are demanding
cost-efficient, laborsaving products. To answer those demands,
the seed industry must develop varieties with high nutrition
value, high tolerance to diseases or other beneficial
characteristics.
The mission of seed breeding company is not only
to develop new varieties but also to supply farmers with high
quality seeds．
Testing and improving seed quality is a
never-ending challenge for us. Last year we established Quality
Assurance Center in the premises of Kyoto headquarters. It is
aimed to provide our customers with more accurate and precise
information on quality through the most advanced testing methods
and technologies, including variety identification to the DNA
level.
We obtained ISO9002 accreditation in 2000 for our
quality system, and we are proud that we have further improved
our system to match top international quality standards and
technologies by Quality Assurance Center.
You may agree that market-oriented,
farmer-oriented and consumer-oriented strategy would be the most
important for seed breeding company. We recently established
Takii Korea Co., Ltd. in Seoul, and opened Takii Korea Breeding
Station in Yoju, both in the Republic of Korea. We also
established PT. Takii Indonesia in Yogyakarta, Indonesia last
year. Now the number of our overseas subsidiaries has risen to
nine. I believe that, through our worldwide network of
subsidiary offices and research stations, we can provide our
customers with faster and better service.
Takii family started as seed merchant in Kyoto, Japan in 1835.
Since then, Takii has been independently growing and expanding,
and now it is regarded as one of the world’s largest
breeder/producers of vegetable and flower seeds. Our varieties
are widely recognized not only in Japan but also in many
countries in the world.
Our mission is to develop varieties with high nutrition value,
high resistance to diseases and/or other beneficial
characteristics, and also to supply growers with high quality
seeds.
We have six breeding and experimental stations in Japan (Shiga,
Fujimi, Shiojiri,
Ibaraki,
Hokkaido,
and Wakayama) and international facilities in U.S.A,
Holland,
France, Chile, Thailand, China, Brazil, India, Korea and
Indonesia. Through the worldwide network, we are currently
exporting to more than 120 countries.
For
more information about Takii & Co., please visit
www.takii.co.jp
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