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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 high and steady. Now, under an ambitious agricultural policy announced this year, Tokyo is preparing for a reversal, envisaging a future of bountiful output that would secure the country’s food security without sending prices into freefall and hurting its politically influential farmers. The new direction has taken on an unexpected urgency as Japanese grapple with a shortage of the all-important staple, which has prompted a historic spike in prices, a flood of imports, and interest from President Donald Trump, who has renewed pressure on Japan to buy U.S. rice as part of the allies’ elusive trade deal. It is a policy that many farmers like Kazuhachi Hosaka welcome in principle, but with trepidation because questions over how it would work in practice remain unanswered. The government is aiming to complete a ...

Chinese companies have signed contracts to purchase up to 700,000 tons of barley from the new harvest in Ukraine, market analysts from the local market information and consulting company Barva Invest reported on their official social media page. According to them, Ukraine is currently using its position as the preferred barley supplier for China, where they are ready to pay $240 per ton CIF (including insurance costs). This corresponds to approximately $203 FOB Odesa and $193 CPT (with paid transportation costs to the port). The company compares Chinese offers with Syria's demand at $220 per ton CIF, which would give approximately the same FOB price as deliveries to China. "The almost complete lack of domestic supply in Ukraine, with the existing huge demand, has heated up prices so much that yesterday's trading reached 9,500 hryvnias (227 dollars at the current exchange rate) with VAT and over $200 CPT-Odesa. This pushes FOB prices to levels above $210, which unconditionally ...

DENIZLI (IHA) - Combine harvester prices for the 2025 harvest season in Çameli district of Denizli were determined at a meeting attended by Mayor Cengiz Arslan.