Japan faces uphill battle to ensure food security

The current event of ranch preachers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries was a missed out on chance for Japan to established practical objectives to boost farming self-sufficiency as it faces a host of difficulties to food security, specialists claim.

Everything from a persistent absence of sources, a decreasing functioning populace, federal government hesitation to overhaul farming plan and also increase rice manufacturing, and also also adjustments in consuming behaviors have actually minimized Japan to a country precariously depending on imports.

A farmer checks his rice area in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture in main Japan on June 16, 2022. (Kyodo)

Russia’s battle with Ukraine and also the succeeding shock to international supply chains worked as a more suggestion of the susceptability of Japan’s food systems versus outside problems.

Last month, at the G-7 ranch preachers’ conference in Miyazaki in southwestern Japan, the …