Japan's farm ministry said Friday it would set its rice production target for 2026 at 7.11 million tons in line with the ...

The country's staple rice production is forecast to fall 370,000 tons from 2025, the agriculture ministry has said.

The recent tumultuous rice price situation in Japan has been a rollercoaster ride. Beginning with a poor harvest in 2023 and a minor rice shortage in the late summer of 2024, many began to think Japan ...

Toru Yamano, chairperson of Japan's Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives (JA-Zenchu), met with farm minister Norikazu ...

As Japan faces soaring rice prices, the country needs an agricultural policy providing a blueprint for the stable supply of ...

ASAHIKAWA, Japan — Nobuo Kubo inherited his rice farm four decades ago, becoming the third generation in his family to look after the lush fields at the base of Mount Daisetsu. The pristine snowmelt ...

In response to soaring supermarket rice prices, the Japanese government released 210,000 tonnes of rice from its emergency reserves in February 2025, despite an abundance of rice production in the ...

Not only do the makers of Kinmemai Premium claim that it’s the world’s best rice, but in 2016 Guinness World Records recognized it as the most expensive rice on the planet.

Japan’s farm minister Taku Eto stepped down on Wednesday, domestic media reported, following public outrage over his comments on getting free rice. Eto said Sunday that he has never had to buy rice as ...

A California grower harvests rice. Amidst brown rice shortages in Japan, California's Calrose variety is gaining traction there. (Courtesy California Rice Commission) Last fall, shelves in the rice ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Farmers in a rice field at Mitunguu in South Imenti, Meru County. [Phares Mutembei, Standard] Last week, I had a rare ...

Vietnam and Japan should collaborate in agricultural robotics, mechanisation, carbon monitoring and reduction, advanced ...