Therefore, the government has been providing subsidies to encourage farmers to grow rice for animal feed, exports and other non-staple food uses. For the 2024 rice harvest, rice paddies capable of ...

While consumers have suffered from shortages of rice on store shelves across the nation, exports of the Japanese staple food ... But utilizing the harvest to be otherwise delivered to the global ...

Crowds line the streets to watch a parade of competing beauty queens atop their regional floats, and the festival ... Harvest Queen is chosen amid a backdrop of spectacular fireworks. Dewi Sri ...

In this paper, we analyze how the volume of rice imports would be affected if the Japanese government were to reduce tariffs on rice by looking at the current state of the Simultaneous Buy-and-Sell ...

No doubt hungry tourists ate LOTS of onigiri and sushi, 3.6M anxious to get discounted high-quality Japanese food. Surely more tourists this year will arrive as many Japanese farmers die off daily = ...

More than 3,000 years ago during the Zhou dynasty (1025-221BC), ancient Chinese emperors worshipped the harvest ... Glutinous rice balls (tong yuen) Since the Mid-Autumn Festival is an opportunity ...

Lekh Raj Juneja is not your average rice cracker company CEO. Born in India, he came to Japan to study fermentation science and ended up leading a Japanese pharmaceutical firm. Last year he was ...