Japan's new food supply emergency measures law took effect on Tuesday, allowing the government to instruct farmers to submit ...

Last summer’s high temperatures and dry conditions led to lower rice yields in key growing ... An agriculture ministry report released in July showed paddy rice yields in Japan are projected ...

and Japanese agriculture is increasingly relying on workers from abroad to take their place. Victor Zambrano Rumayna farms 15 hectares of land in the city of Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, growing ...

Tohoku University professor Ishii Keiichi is a global agriculture expert. He says growing corn for feed is an effective way to increase Japan's self-sufficiency. He points out that in Japan ...

Due to these circumstances, there are growing expectations for heat-resistant varieties as extreme summer heat continues to grip Japan. The agriculture ministry said that heat-tolerant varieties ...

Scientists in Japan have conducted a field experiment in rice plantations hosting agrivoltaics systems and have found that ...