Among the alternatives are adding glutinous barley to rice and switching from rice to bread and pasta. Kengo Tabe / The Japan News TOKYO – Soaring rice prices and increased
The Ministry of Agriculture aims to address rising rice prices by disclosing regional averages to improve distribution. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has
The average price for 5 kilograms of rice rose to ¥4,233 from ¥4,220 the previous week — more than double the level seen a year earlier. The average price of rice sold at
Only 1.4% of Japanese government-stockpiled rice sold through auctions in March has reached retailers, an agriculture ministry survey showed Wednesday. The auctioned rice totaled
Economy Tokyo, April 30 (Jiji Press)–A total of 100,164 tons of Japanese government-stockpiled rice was sold in a third auction at an average price of 20,302 yen per 60
Tokyo, April 28 (Jiji Press)–The average price of rice sold at about 1,000 supermarkets across Japan hit a fresh record high in the week through April 20, the agriculture
Japan is taking the rare steps of turning to imports and releasing part of its emergency stockpile of the grain as the government struggles to meet demand. TOKYO – Rice is a
Indonesia JAKARTA: President Prabowo Subianto has authorised rice exports to countries in need, reversing an earlier statement by Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman, who had
TOKYO: The Japanese government may propose increasing duty-free imports of US rice in negotiations over US tariffs, according to government sources. The United States has said