The oyster fishing season is underway in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Shipments of raw oysters have begun in the ...

JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices of the national staple grain remained relatively ...

U.S. potato farmers are facing disappointment as the recent trade agreement with Japan failed to include market access for ...

In 2024, Japan revised its Basic Law on Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas to prioritise food security amid global instability. Despite the amendment, Japanese agricultural policy continues to focus on ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KAMIMOMI, Japan (AP) — In the remote village ...

Farmers in Nepal, one of Asia's poorest countries, harvest the shrub for Japan's money supply.

Trade relationships in Asia are critically important for Montana agriculture. When the opportunity arose to join Governor ...

MIKAWA, Japan (Reuters) - Like other farmers on this fertile, coastal plain in northeast Japan, where patchwork rice fields stretch to the mountains beyond, Kazushi Saito knows firsthand that the ...

KAMIMOMI, Japan (AP) — In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan’s western Okayama prefecture, a small group of rice farmers began their most recent harvest in sweltering heat, two weeks sooner than ...