INDUSTRY CATEGORY
Agricultural Products
TARGET AUDIENCE
B2B, B2C
STAGE OF VALUE CHAIN
Life cycle
TYPE OF STANDARD
Certificate
GEOGRAPHICAL REGION
Japan
CONTROLLED BY
Japan GAP
WEBSITE
Japan Gap Foundation
Certificate Description
The Japan GAP Foundation is a private nonprofit organization developing and managing ASIAGAP and JGAP. ASIAGAP, as they are known collectively, is the only international standard developed in Japan. Established as an NPO corporation in November of 2006, JGAP’s third-party certification system began the following year.
Target categories included fruits and vegetables, tea, grains and pulses, and livestock and livestock products.
The Japan GAP Foundation offer the guarantee of safe and secure agricultural products to consumers by providing producers with voluntary GAP standards that are easily accessible to all farms, including smaller ones, around the world.
They aim to disseminate GAP standards to agricultural producers around the world and contribute to economic development through the realization of production safety, environmental conservation, and sustainable agriculture.