Through grain silos and other storage facilities, the company offers warehousing and harbor transportation services. Flour, flour premix, pressed barley and other grain products are the main operations of Torigoe Flour. The company is also involved in warehousing and the storage of agricultural products under government contracts. Yokohama-based Nihon Nosan Kogyo has a close relationship with Mitsubishi. It derives about three-quarters of total sales from animal feedstuffs.
Performance tends to be variable depending on conditions in grain markets and exchange market.
Foodstuffs and products for livestock make up the bulk of other sales. The firm is actively streamlining and computerizing its production plants. An animal feed maker with ties to no business group, Kyodo Shiryo has closed its factories in Kobe and Muroran, jointly established other plants and taken other steps to bolster its production system and become more cost competitive. To increase sales, the company is providing financial support to livestock operations in Japan. The company's goal is to become a comprehensive maker of livestock products.