FOODEX JAPAN, held in 1976 for the first time and held every year, is
the world's third large-scale food and beverage special exhibition
enjoying equal popularity with Cologne and Paris International Food
Exhibitions. In 2016, the exhibition area reached 29,891 square meters,
about 2977 exhibitors from 79 countries and 77361 visitors participated.
Most of them are individuals, groups or governmental staff from
catering industry, manufacturers, leisure industry, shop design and
construction, purchasers and retail industry engaged in agriculture,
animal husbandry and aquaculture production.
Japanese food
market scale is about 700 billion US dollars. 2017 FOODEX will bring
more commercial opportunities to Chinese businesses. Japan is highly
dependent on import, the current agricultural self-sufficiency rate is
about 40%, annual food imports could be about $70 billion. And the
earthquake and tsunami severely destroyed a large area of land which
will be causing long-term and immeasurable damage to agricultural
production. At present, some counties rich in rice, aquatic products and
fruits like Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate are undergoing great losses.
Miyazaki, Fukushima and Tochigi, the most important vegetable bases of
the capital circle will be unable to recover within the following three
years. Considering the long-term effects of nuclear radiation in Japan,
the northeast region, main distribution area of Japanese poultry
breeding and processing industries, will take more than 3 years to
resume production. This definitely has brought great opportunity to
Chinese chicken products export. According to the statistics: after the
earthquake, orders for water, seafood, canned food, frozen, boiled and
salted vegetables have increased doubly. Meantime Chinese mineral water
has appeared on Japanese market.
During the 4 days of
exhibition, Joywin Booth has attracted countless visitors, the staff
kept on communication with the visitors with great enthusiasm and
patience.