Japan plans to release some ... "Producers might oppose the move saying the rice price was finally high enough to cover their inflated costs of production,” Eto said. "But I hope everyone ...

In some major production areas, yields decreased last year as extreme summer heat and lack of sunshine hurt harvests. Extreme heat led to rice crop failures last year. Factors beyond Japan's ...

Mention Japan’s Niigata prefecture and rice usually comes to mind. Niigata ranks first in the nation in terms of rice cultivation area and production levels. This northwestern region is flanked ...

Japan is self-sufficient in rice, and has tightly limited imports to support domestic prices. Agricultural policy has also incentivised limits on domestic production as a means of maintaining ...

In 2022, Japan produced nearly 7.5 million metric tons of rice, which was forty times more than Kenya's production ... government aims to expand the area of irrigated rice farming to 171,676 ...