| Oct 12 2023 | An Overview of Japan Agriculture Production |
Japan’s main agricultural crops are rice, corn, wheat, soybeans, barley, peanuts,
rapeseed, and oats. The main summer season crops (April to November) are rice, corn,
soybeans, and peanuts. The summer crops are typically planted in May through June
and harvested between August and November (Figure 1). Wheat and barley are the
major winter crops planted in September through November and harvested in June and
July. Rice’s 5-year-average harvested area is 1.5 million hectares (mha), wheat 214,000
hectares (ha), soybeans 146,000 ha, barley 62,000 ha, peanuts 8,000 ha, and corn
1,200 ha. Rice is the largest crop by production volume, with a 5-year average of 10.4
million metric tons (mmt), followed by wheat at 991,000 metric tons (mt), soybeans
224,000 mt, barley 218,000 mt, peanuts 20,000 mt, corn 5,400 mt, rapeseed 4,000 mt,
and oats 1,000 mt.
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| Aug 20 2012 | Japan Agricultural Situation |
From June 3 - 10, 2012, USDA/FAS personnel and staff from the US Embassy in Tokyo visited two major agricultural areas of Japan - Niigata prefecture and city in the western part of the country, and Miyagi prefecture and the city of Sendai on the east coast. The purpose of the trip was to get an overall understanding of Japan’s agricultural sector, with an emphasis on rice production practices, consumption issues, and the recovery efforts following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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