Japan will continue releasing rice from its strategic reserves in an effort to curb skyrocketing prices, the government announced April 9. The stockpiles—established nearly 30 years ago to ...

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Government-stockpiled rice bags arrive at a rice mill in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, on March 18. THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN VIA AP IMAGES Private imports of overseas rice have been increasing rapidly in ...

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The rice paddy ... over their rice fields, their overall revenue, including income from selling solar-generated electricity, can improve more than fivefold, a recent Japanese study has shown.

TOKYO—Japan will sell more rice from its emergency stockpile through July in an attempt to stabilise soaring prices, the agricultural minister said Wednesday. After rice prices nearly doubled ...

Maybe the whole sellers are stockpiling rice but not families ... but the number of abandoned fields and farm houses which I see all over Kansai (I travel often) and beyond point to a deleterious ...

The retail price for five kilograms of rice in the last week of March was 4,206 yen ($29), up 104.5 percent year-on-year. Japan is aiming to boost its rice exports almost eightfold to 350,000 ...

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