The cost of rice is soaring in Japan, prompting the government to step in with its own stockpiles in a bid to stabilize the market.

The Japanese government said Friday it will release a fifth of its emergency rice stockpile after hot weather, poor harvests ...

The government will release up to 210,000 tons of its stockpiled rice, farm minister Taku Eto said Friday, in a bid to ensure ...

The Japanese government heavily regulates the country’s rice market and imposes significant tariffs on imports.

The price of rice has continued to surge after it jumped last summer as a shortage triggered by extreme hot weather in 2023 ...

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In August 2019, in a reply letter to residents of Xiadang Township in Ningde, East China's Fujian Province, Chinese President ...

Sources say Japan's agriculture ministry has decided to release 210,000 tons of government reserve rice as prices of the country's staple grain remain high.

LOCAL traders purchased unmilled rice at a lower price in January, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Preliminary data from the PSA showed that the average quotation for palay ...

China will secure larger rice shipments this year following the decline in quotations from Thailand and Vietnam—the ...

Committee has also suggested real-time crop monitoring, district-level stubble collection centres and biomass incentives for ...