Japan: Japan Announces Measures to Strengthen Food Security

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   JA2023-0013

On December 27, 2022, the Government of Japan (GOJ) released the “Food Security Reinforcement Policy Framework,” which aims to lower Japan's dependence on imports and to push increased domestic production of wheat, soybeans, feed grains, hay, and fertilizer inputs. The GOJ will fund new food security reinforcement measures through the Japanese Fiscal Year (JFY) 2022 second supplementary budget and JFY2023 annual budget.

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