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 country. The price spike since summer 2024 did not occur because of a production shortage, but due to...
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j-cast
2025.05.06
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In the summer of 2024, rice disappeared from supermarket shelves, sparking a furor known as the Reiwa rice riots. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries began releasing government stockpiles of rice in March 2025, but rice prices have not fallen and are still high.
According to the...
Taiwan Today
2025.05.06
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Taiwan-grown pineapples will remain an important component of school meals in Japan for the seventh year running, the Ministry of Agriculture said during a promotional event May 5 in the southern city of Tainan.
According to the ministry, the initiative stems from the “Memorandum of...
newsonair
2025.05.04
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Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today launched India’s first two genome-edited rice varieties by ICAR in New Delhi. Addressing the event, the minister congratulated agriculture scientists who were involved in this project and said that the country has faith in the capability of the...
Focus Taiwan
2025.04.22
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Taiwan's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on Monday unveiled a comprehensive support package to help agricultural producers and exporters weather the impact of impending U.S. tariffs.
The six-measure initiative comes in response to a decision by the Donald Trump administration on April 2 (U.S. time...
FAO
2025.04.22
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today on Earth Day launched Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Nature Restoration (AIM4NatuRe), a new initiative with GBP 7 million from the United Kingdom to improve monitoring and reporting of global ecosystem restoration...
The Guardian
2025.04.22
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Japanese consumers who used to treat foreign-grown rice with scepticism have been forced to develop a taste for it amid domestic shortage.
Japan has imported rice from South Korea for the first time in a quarter of a century in an attempt to address soaring prices and growing consumer anger....
European Commission
2025.04.07
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A JRC-developed expert-driven explainable AI (xAI) model can detect multiple climate hazards impacting agriculture in Europe. It enables probabilistic detection and uncertainty estimation of areas of concern, hence improving risk management.
Climate extremes pose significant threats to...