Japan GAP Foundation

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.