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By Haruna Fukushima and Rintaro Kaizuka / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
18:12 JST,
May 27, 2025
The agriculture ministry’s decision to sell state-held reserves of rice through “discretionary contracts,” in which the government sets the price of the grain, is a drastic change from its previous stance of not controlling rice prices. With the average price of rice now doubled from the same perio...