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Subject: NEWS : Ambassador of Japan hosts buckwheat dinner

SOURCE : The New Light of Myanmar (Friday, December 10, 1999)

Ambassador of Japan hosts buckwheat dinner

YANGON, 9 Dec - Ambassador of Japan Mr Kazuo
Asakai hosted a buckwheat dinner at his residence
this evening.

It was attended by Minister at the State Peace and
Development Council Chairman's Office Brig-Gen
Abel, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for
Progress of Border Areas and National Races and
Development Affairs and Minister for Home Affairs.

The opium substitute buckwheat project has been
implemented for three years through bilateral
cooperation.

In Kokang region of the northern Shan State,
buckwheat was cultivated on four acres of land in
1997 and on 200 acres in 1998; this year,
buckwheat was cultivated on 2,000 acres, and
buckwheat on some acres have been harvested.

Noodles made from the already-harvested buckwheat
were served at the dinner.

Also present at the dinner were Director-General
of the Policy Research Council of LDP of Japan Mr
Tomomitsu Iwakura, Professor of Japan Buckwheat Dr
Arkiyo Yugihara, Chairman of Japanese Noodle
Entrepreneurs Association Mr Chogiro Ginda and 12
buckwheat merchants and the staff of the embassy.

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