"Top-grade rice accounts for just 64.4% of this year's harvest, down 18.6 percentage points from 2009 and the lowest level since comparable records were first kept in 1999, the Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday...
In the No. 1 rice-producing prefecture of Niigata, the proportion of top-grade rice plunged from 90.7% to 19.7%.
Source:Hot Summer Delivers Lowest-Grade Rice Harvest In 10 Years
Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Nikkei
http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20101020D20JFA06.htm
In the No. 1 rice-producing prefecture of Niigata, the proportion of top-grade rice plunged from 90.7% to 19.7%.
Source:Hot Summer Delivers Lowest-Grade Rice Harvest In 10 Years
Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Nikkei
http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20101020D20JFA06.htm
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