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At the cost of their domestic food security.
Did we not learn from the pandemic?
Japan has no domestic food security, it imports 60% of all food (one of the highest in the world btw) and it would be unsustainable any other way so it must have a strong trade policy. This makes the recent Japanese alt right moves all more idiotic.
Makes a lot of sense to try and preserve the remaining 40% then
How? The bottle neck is workable land not farmer incentive.
Farmers being 80 years old and young people moving to the cities doesn’t help.
Nor do the laws making it essentially impossible for foreign nationals to own and manage farmland.
Definitely. I lookup Japan's immigration programs every year and every year is not good enough for anyone worth their salt to bother, especially when compared to neighboring countries. Also the current political shift to right is a major red flag.
Correct. So that means the incentive would obviously be placed on higher value crops and not necessarily staple crops like rice.
That's a big problem for a nation's food security