The Promotion of

Japanese Agriculture

Yoshiki Kimura

Hayato Ota

Yuto Wakabayashi

Burdock

Price

Stability

Quality

Control

BurdockMainly eaten in Japan

Gobo牛蒡

Market for anti-aging products

→＄ billion by 2015

China

Taiwan

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