Japan is set to implement a policy enabling the government to instruct farmers to submit production increase plans if domestic supplies of rice and other key items drop by 20 percent or more and cause a surge in prices, a draft of the document showed Tuesday.
The measure for mitigating crises was presented by the farm ministry at a committee meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party amid global instability in food production caused by factors such as abnormal weather and the Ukraine war.
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