Farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district once designated a no-go zone because of radioactive fallout ejected by the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

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According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Japan has supported Vietnam’s agriculture industry with more than 25 technical projects

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Soy meal that is produced in the US seems to be the favoured form of feed of Japanese poultry for the last 50 years.

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The government said Tuesday that it will take steps to bolster Japan's abating agriculture industry, such as boosting crop exports and promoting intensive farming, with an eye on the country's entry into talks on the U.S.-led tariff-cutting pact.

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The Jamaican Government’s efforts to attain self-sufficiency in meat consumption have been boosted, through a J$69.5 million grant to the Diversification of the Caribbean Livestock through the Production of Small Ruminants project.

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Kawauchi, a farming village 30km from the site of the world’s worst atomic disaster in 25 years, feared for its future as radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant soaked into the soil.

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Kawauchi, a farming village 30km from the site of the world’s worst atomic disaster in 25 years, feared for its future as radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant soaked into the soil.

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Takeo Endo, a Kawauchi farmer who once supplied the imperial family with rice, is spearheading a group that’s pioneering a project that aims to grow food without having to plant on soiled ground; farming in a sealed-off hydroponics factory instead.

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Japan's compulsion to protect its politically influential and culturally iconic agricultural sector is always a serious stumbling block when Tokyo attempts to negotiate free trade agreements.

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has not yet made any formal announcement, but Japan’s largest farm group has already staged a protest against the country’s impending entry into the United States-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks.

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JAPAN'S Prime Minister Abe has announced the country will take part in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) discussions, and reinforced the importance of Japan taking the lead of the rule making of the economic framework while possible.

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2012 was overall a good year for US distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) in Korea.

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Kawauchi, a farming village 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the site of the world’s worst atomic disaster in 25 years, feared for its future as radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant soaked into the soil.

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Environmental activists and Japanese whaling authorities have reported fresh clashes in Antarctic waters, with each side accusing the other of causing dangerous collisions between ships.

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Japan increased wheat prices to flour millers by almost 10 percent, raising costs for companies including Nisshin Seifun Group Inc. (2002) and Nippon Flour Mills Co. (2001) as a weaker yen made grain imports more expensive.

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Taking the next step to support Japanese poultry processors

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Japan has given Kenya a Sh617.6 million grant to finance two projects meant to improve farming and access to clean water.

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Mayumi Kurasawa's seaweed company saw seven of its factories swept away by the 2011 tsunami.

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'Tis the season for predictions, and last week Hiromasa Yonekura, the chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), told Asahi Shimbun he believed Japan will decide in 2013 to take part in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks.

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Farmers can now look to the cloud for the latest updates on their crops.

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Japan's rice production for 2013 has been forecasted at 7.91 million tons, 20,000 tons less than 2012, as demand is expected to continue to fall, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries as saying on Wednesday.

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China's cabinet vowed on Wednesday to tighten laws on the expropriation of farmland, warning that the problem risked fuelling rural unrest and undermining the country's food security.

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Despite a good harvest, domestic rice prices are soaring partly because producers' efforts to develop brand rice that can be sold at higher prices are resulting in a shortage of low-priced rice in the market.

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The town government of Hirono and the village government of Kawauchi in Fukushima Prefecture have decided to resume planting rice next year.

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Japan will restrict rice shipments from an area in Fukushima prefecture after a sample exceeded a new government safety standard for the first time since a stricter level was imposed, rekindling food-safety concerns.

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France’s grain-grower organizations set up a fund to provide financing to modernize the country’s livestock industry.

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Japan's prime minister will instruct his ministers to plan for an economic stimulus of up to ¥1.0 trillion on Wednesday, reports said, as an election hovers into view.

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Japan imported 57,315 tonnes swt of beef during August, the highest monthly volume since July 2005.

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Tesco has revealed its exit plan of its loss-making Japanese business.

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Last year’s crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings.

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A spy scandal involving a Chinese diplomat working at the embassy in Tokyo looks set to cost a Japanese cabinet minister his job, a report said Thursday.

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Last year's crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings.

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The Agriculture and Livestock Industries Corporation of Japan (ALIC) have released survey outcomes on beef cattle farms, with specific focus on larger scale operations (with cattle numbers greater than 200 head) during the during the Japanese financial year 2011 (JFY – April 2011 to March 2012).

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Japan's farm ministry signed a memorandum with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council on Monday to cooperate in promoting Japanese food and agricultural exports to the Chinese territory.

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A recent publication has examined the epidemiology of Salmonella prevalence on egg-producing farms in Japan.

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Japan's Ministry of Agriculture is looking to buy a total of 106,200 tonnes of food wheat from the United States and Canada in a weekly tender closing on Thursday.3

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Japan, the world’s fifth-biggest wheat importer, plans to buy 6.5 percent less foreign food wheat in the year to March 2013 in anticipation of higher local production, helped by government initiatives to lift food self sufficiency.

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Japan's farm ministry said on Friday it plans to buy 77.7 percent more foreign wheat for animal feed in the year starting on April 1 than in the current year.

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Farming is the only thing Hitoshi Onoda knows — it is what he has done for the past 35 years.

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As of March, the Japanese company Hytem Co. Ltd., established in Kakamigahara, Gifu, will be distributing Petersime products and services to the Japanese market. Hytem supplies automated equipment for egg farms. It is a leading supplier of layer cages in Japan with a market share of about 50%.

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Japanese earthquake aftermath claimed 4.37 million chickens

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This is the first of a two-part report on the royalties certain Korean farmers are facing now, particularly Jeju citrus farmers. In the next issue of The Weekly, reporter Angela Kim will detail some suggestions experts have for farmers and explain how the government plans to minimize any negative impact. — Ed.

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Institut de Sélection Animale (ISA) has reached an agreement in which Dr. Naoki Goto will become the ISA Area Manager in Japan.

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Wheat prices in Japan, Asia’s second- largest importer, may decline in April by the most since October 2009, putting food makers including Yamazaki Baking Co. and Nisshin Seifun Group Inc. under pressure to cut prices.

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Major dairy companies will inspect the milk products they produce in 17 prefectures in northeastern and central Japan for radioactive contamination and disclose their findings to the public at the end of February, an industry body said Wednesday.

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According to the National Federation of Agricultural Co-operative Associations (Zen-Noh), the price of eggs briefly soared after the 11 March disaster because of a shortage. Then food processing companies switched to imported eggs which became cheaper due to the strong yen. This, in turn, drove down the prices of domestic eggs, according to JapanToday.

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Researchers in Norwich said a method of identifying and isolating crop traits has been developed that means new varieties could be created in a year.

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A party sponsored by Matsusaka Farms in Japan was given an insight into the creation of new consumer products when they were shown around the Tyson Discovery Center during a visit to the US chicken industry.

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Japanese financial newspaper The Nikkei, reported that the nation’s food imports increased 12.4 percent year-on-year in the January-November period. This was partly due to lower domestic production in the post-Tsunami period, but also to lingering consumer health concerns over radiation risk in domestically-produced foodstuffs.

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Japan will extend a ban on rice shipments from a third city in Fukushima prefecture after local authorities found more tainted grain, deepening food-safety concerns nine months after a nuclear disaster.

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