Initially it is focusing on companies that produce basic food items, like meat, wheat, rice, sugar, soya and animal feeds.

Miyuki, too, paints an idyllic picture of life chez Hatoyama, where her husband indulges his love of animal movies and feeds his addiction to prawn crackers.

Fermentation technologies are used to produce nutrients (such as particular essential amino acids or complete proteins) or to improve the digestibility of animal feeds.