Japan to aim at raising rice exports 7-fold by 2030
The Japanese government aims to raise rice exports sevenfold by 2030 from last year's amount. Sources familiar with the ...
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With rice in short supply, prices soar due to heat, tourism boom
The shelves at the Super Marusan’s Koshigaya-hanata store were almost stripped bare of 10-kilogram bags of rice, regardless of variety. Only a small number of 5-kg packages remained, and some ...
SOPs, cross-agency cooperation to be boosted to combat mixed rice fraud, says Armizan
The government is strengthening procedures to crack down on instances of mixing cheaper local white rice into packages of imported rice, says the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry ...
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Ebonyi, Lagos markets where traders mill, repackage local rice as foreign brands
For 48-year-old Lizzy Amadi, the cheerful Yuletide season turned bitter when her daughter returned home with local rice packaged as one of the highly demanded foreign brands. She had painstakingly ...
'Like watering a desert': Experts doubt release of reserves will lower Japan rice prices
Bidding will soon open for government-reserve rice stocks planned for release in the middle of the month, Japan's agriculture ...
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Amid shortages, tons of edible rice wasted daily as ‘food loss’
Although rice shortages have left supermarket shelves ... The contents of bento boxes from convenience stores were removed from the packages and placed in a container. The center collects food ...