For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices ...

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The agriculture ministry plans to export 350,000 tons of rice in 2030, nearly eight times the amount in 2024, as part of a new mechanism to prevent future rice shortages in Japan.

In Japan-U.S. talks in Washington on April 16, U.S. officials expressed interest in exporting more farm produce, such as meat, citrus fruit, potatoes and rice, to Japan, government sources said.