JA needs to die. Rice prices have increased but this money isn’t getting passed to the farmer. It’s getting hoarded by the cartel.
You can make more money growing vegetables. Rice is just not cost effective.
So many rice fields near my place have turned into apartments and houses recently. I guess people were sick of working as a salaryman and farming on the weekends.
Maybe a move back to good old food markets would be an option. Buy straight from the farmers
I thought it was partly a problem of there being such a massive glut of very small-hold farmers as well? Not just the aging population and unprofitablity issues
Time to ditch the Tarrifs against Australian Rice, and start importing it en-mass…
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If they can’t eat rice, let them eat bread
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JA needs to die. Rice prices have increased but this money isn’t getting passed to the farmer. It’s getting hoarded by the cartel.
You can make more money growing vegetables. Rice is just not cost effective.
So many rice fields near my place have turned into apartments and houses recently. I guess people were sick of working as a salaryman and farming on the weekends.
Maybe a move back to good old food markets would be an option. Buy straight from the farmers
I thought it was partly a problem of there being such a massive glut of very small-hold farmers as well? Not just the aging population and unprofitablity issues
Time to ditch the Tarrifs against Australian Rice, and start importing it en-mass…
Barley: 249円/KG