The Institute for the Development of Agricultural Cooperation in Asia (IDACA)

What’s new?

2021.12.03: Mr. Arnaud Petit, Executive Director of the International Grains Council, to give a lecture for the first time as an ICA training program

2021.11.18: Agricultural officers from the Australian Embassy visited IDACA

2021.10.05: The Climakers Asia Digital Workshop was held.

2021.09.28: The Climakers Aasia Digital Workshop, October 5, 2021

2021.08.16: The Board of Directors decided to appoint two new advisors at its meeting on July 27.

2021.08.06: IDACA News updated

2021.04.15: ICA/IDACA Follow up program (online) in FY 2020 was closed on April 15.

2021.04.09: ICA/IDACA Follow up program started

2021.04.08: President Nakaya came to IDACA!

2021.03.02: The homepage has been redesigned.

IDACA News

For former participants and overseas related organizations the English public relations paper "IDACA News" three times a year to disseminate information.

What is IDACA?

Institute for the Development of Agricultural Cooperation in Asia (IDACA) was established in July 1963 based on a resolution of the 1st Asian Agricultural Cooperative Conference held in Tokyo in April 1962, with the strong leadership of Mr. Yasushi Hasumi, the first president of Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives (JA ZENCHU). The main purpose of our institute is to contribute to increase of famers’ income and development of regional agriculture and communities through the development and promotion of agricultural cooperatives in the Asian region.
We are conducting human resource development training courses for overseas agricultural cooperative, survey and development cooperation, etc. as specific activities.

Our Main Activities

There are three main activities of IDACA, such as "training courses”, "follow-up, guidance and survey" and " research and expert dispatch."

Training Courses

We provide training opportunity for people involved in the agricultural cooperative movement in developing countries around the world, including Asian and African countries, to learn about experience of Japanese agricultural cooperatives, and to help organize farmers in each county.

Follow-up Guidance and Survey

For the ex-participants who have participated in the ICA-related training courses, we survey on the progress of their action plans created during the training course and how they utilize the experience and knowledge gained in the training by the “on-site survey,” and “questionnaire”.

Research and Expert Dispatch

As a support activity for fostering agricultural cooperative organizations, in addition to training in Japan, we dispatch experts to overseas technical cooperation projects and actively support them through project formation and implementation.

What did former participants do after returning to their own country?

The participants who participated in the training are expanding their fields of activity by making good use of knowledge and experience gained through lectures and observations in Japan. For example, they are struggling to establish a farmer's organization in their own countries and working to revitalize the business of agricultural cooperatives, and so on.
Moreover, some of them have held important government posts and worked on rural development at a national-level

Statistics on IDACA’s performance

Over the past half century after establishment of IDACA, we have accepted more than 6,500 participants. The graph shows the number of participants by country and ratio of woman’s participation.