New potatoes

I have purchased potatoes named Nishiyutaka. It has shorter period of irresponsive state, that is, could bud out in shorter time than most of the other potatoes. It takes only 2 or 3 months to bud and could be harvested within the year if planted early in fall. It is developed in Kyushyu in '70s for a species in the warmer area like kyushyu than the ordinary species mostly grown in cooler areas. 

Some of them have already budded when arrived here today. Moderate in size. In spring, bigger ones of different species are always divided into two pieces per one fruit before being planted. For the fall species, they advise us not to do so. Because they could be decayed with the high temperature.

Well, where should I plant them in the garden farm? I would put compost but not chemical fertilizer. I believe potatoes could grow well in rather poorly nutrient ground. There are still some of potatoes cropped in spring. I would harvest potatoes, of different species, in spring and fall. This one in fall. I would keep some of them for seed potato every year. Then potatoes will be harvested twice a year.

As I already wrote, I am seriously worrying about the hyperinflation occurring in our country sooner or later. After he left the position, the former prime minister boasted at a lecture that he had conducted "fiscal finance", which is strictly prohibited by the fiscal law. As already well known, the government's fiscal debt exceeded one thousand trillion JPY, an astronomical figure. Bank of Japan has been purchasing tens of trillions of the national bond every year. It is substantially the fiscal finance. The total amount of national bond reached almost 300% of GDP. BOJ owns more than 400 trillion JPY of the national bond. I firmly believe our government could not go on without hyperinflation. If the long term interest rate goes up a bit, BOJ could be "bankrupted". It may trigger hyperinflation, either. I don't believe the basic performances of the industries, like automobile or semiconductor etc which used to economically lead our country in '70s through '90s, are not governing their market in the world. Toyota may still be occupying a exceptionally high rank but is getting delayed in the EV development.  

In such a situation, with the sharp drop of exchange rate of JPY and the extraordinary rise of living cost, the people should suffer from undermined social security and undergo hardship for a few years. Considering of the onus of declining birthrate and aging of population, it may continue more than several decades. Science and technology used to be the origin of this country's growth and development. But the government has reduced investments for education/

research for such field. Nobel prize awardees have been warning of that for the past years but no response from the government.  

Retirees like me will suffer most because their deposits/investments in JPY lose their value and the pension might be reduced so much that they could hardly live on.

I am concerned about the price of foods. Our country, as stated elsewhere, has only 34% of food self-sufficienty rate. We depend on the imports for foods. With inflation going on, the food prices would climb up, either of imported or domestially produced. So that is the reason why I am going to crop potatoes twice a year.

Am I too pessimistic? I really hope I am not right. I am afraid it is not the time for us to be indulged in such as Olympic games. People are not sober with a number of pan and circus in the society.