JAPAN/U.S. AGRICULTURE TALKS SET FOR APRIL 17, 20

  Agriculture Minister Mutsuki Kato said he
  will meet U.S. Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng here on April
  17 and 20 to discuss bilateral farm trade issues. Lyng will
  visit Tokyo from April 16 to 27.
      Kato told reporters after a cabinet meeting all topics ofconcern to the U.S. Will be discussed, such as trade in beef
  
  and oranges and import controls on farm products. He said
  Shintaro Abe, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's executive
  council chairman, would propose some unspecified measures in
  response to demands to ease import controls on U.S. Farm
  products. Kato declined to give any details.
  

