a research team in Japan aims to create a functional compost tailor-made for rice cultivation. Applying this microbe-rich compost to paddy fields could maximize yield, while reducing the need for ...

Japan plans to release some of its rice stockpiles reserved for emergency use in response to record domestic prices for the grain. The government will discuss selling part of its strategic rice ...

A worker sifts a rice stockpile in Thailand. Japan stockpiles 1 million tons of rice that it will soon tap to lower prices. Trump vows to tap America’s ‘liquid gold’ oil reserves and ...

but farmers working among the paddy fields and ancient rice terraces say that climate change is hurting the harvest of rice, long a cornerstone of Japan's diet. "Last year, an exceptional heat ...

Many rice fields developed,” explains Hirashima ... In 2004, a typhoon ripped through the Sea of Japan and destroyed Sado’s entire rice harvest. As farmers reflected on the economic ...