RICE is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval- shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...

JICA hopes the investment will help ensure stable food procurement by Japan, which imports such crops as soybeans and corns ...

Japan's agriculture minister, Taku Eto, resigned on May 21 just six months into his term, following a public backlash to his ...

A short drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the ...

This means consumers have paid a premium, contributing to a downward trend in rice consumption alongside other factors such ...

Embrapa, the public agricultural research agency, is committed to combining livestock, crops, and trees to turn around a ...

From cull order to convoy to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an ostrich farm in Edgewood, B.C., is refusing to give up its birds.

Japan began selling government rice stockpiles through direct contracts on Monday after the newly appointed farm minister ...

A short drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the spring sunshine, bringing life back to a former no-go zone.

Earlier, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, David Silinde said that JICA, WB and AfDB have recently committed over 1.4tri/- for ...