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Online grocery retail, although off to a somewhat slow start in Germany, offers promising opportunities for food producers and marketers.

Rice consumption continues to decline due to a shrinking population and reductions in per capita consumption.

Germany’s private label grocery market topped $123 billion in 2018 - 45 percent of total grocery sales in Germany.

With nearly 83 million of the world’s wealthiest consumers, Germany is the largest market for food and agricultural products in the European Union.

Germany has presented a plan to phase out glyphosate and terminate its use in Germany by December 31, 2023, as part of an “action program for the protection of insects.”

Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) confirmed Japan’s first outbreak of Spodoptera frugiperda, or Fall Armyworm (FAW).

On September 5, 2019, the German Government introduced a voluntary animal welfare label for pork products.

The United States, as the second largest exporter of processed vegetables to Japan, accounts for 20 percent of the market, valued at US$560 million in 2018.

Although Germany does not require labeling of non-GMO food products and animal feed, the nation’s voluntary “Ohne Gentechnik” (GMO-free) labeling program is gaining momentum.