Agriculture

Although Japan’s food self-sufficiency rate was more than 70 percent in the 1960s, it has now fallen to less than 40 percent. The number of farmers has decreased by half over the past decade to approximately 1.23 million by 2022. Further, about 70% of these workers are over 65 years old, and the aging rate, which is increasing every year, is becoming a serious problem. Feeling a sense of impending crisis about the future of agriculture in Japan, Tsubasa Sugai,…