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I’d popped over to Japan for a week in February with my nine-year-old son Miles to meet surf shop owners and see some sights. We had a great trip, and ...
Japan’s rice supply debacle continues as the government is now seeking to lower the price of its stockpiled grain, and focus ...
Japan paused its sale of rice reserves after seeing a fast response from retailers, in a positive sign for the government’s ...
Genome-edited strains can improve yield with less inputs. But they should be used for pulses and oilseeds, instead of ...
A government-managed rice supply makes sense when your neighbours are China and North Korea. Canadian dairy has no such ...
Amid nationwide high rice prices, Aichi Prefecture is striving to increase rice production. The prefecture, though, faces a ...
In the paddy fields of Jhenaidah’s Kaliganj upazila, farmers are grappling with rising irrigation costs, erratic rainfall, ...
The government has been releasing some of its stockpiled rice since March, but that has yet to translate to lower prices.
Even among all the changes in Taipei’s landscape, today there are still shimmering traces of the water city that once existed ...
Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain ...
Regular rice exports can resume when production stabilizes and government food reserves are sufficient or relatively safer ...
Farm minister resigns amid outrage as staple grain doubles in price, exposing deeper fault lines in agriculture and politics.