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India’s Food-Grain Production Reaches 354 Million Tonnes; Wheat, Rice & Maize Boom

Source: Free Press Journal India’s foodgrain production is estimated to have reached 354 million tonnes in 2024-25, which is 6.6 per cent higher than last year’s (2023-24) production of 332 million tonnes, according to the third advance estimates. The estimates are based on all major crops, including wheat, rice, maize, soyabean, pulses and groundnuts. The […]

Japan’s farm minister resigns over rice gaffe, as stubbornly high prices threaten government’s grip on power

By Chris Lau, Mai Takiguchi and Soyon Nishioka, CNN Tokyo CNN — An off-the-cuff remark about never paying for rice has cost Japan’s agriculture minister his job, as pressure mounts on the government to solve the nation’s rice crisis. Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday, telling reporters that he had concluded he was “not the right […]

Japan’s agriculture minister resigns after inappropriate remark on rice

Eto came under fire earlier this week after saying that he never had to buy rice thanks to his supporters’ gifts. AP Tokyo. Japan’s agriculture minister resigned Wednesday over his inappropriate remark about buying rice as the public struggles with record high prices of the country’s traditional staple food. At a party seminar Sunday in […]