It's cheap, recycled, and has centuries of tradition: "shimogoe" or "fertilizer from a person's bottom" is finding new favor in Japan as Ukraine's war hikes the price of chemical alternatives. As in ...

Skyrocketing prices for chemical fertilizers have sent officials looking to other valuable, if unappetizing, resources that are readily available in Japan to help grow food. While prices are climbing ...

Japan’s agriculture industry has found itself pretty much powerless to do anything except wait for the worst as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is sending already-rising fertilizer prices through the ...

TOKYO -- Japan will ramp up domestic fertilizer production to enhance economic security amid rising fertilizer prices globally due to the Ukraine war, Nikkei has learned.

The Government of Japan has given Malawi 5, 200 metric tonnes of fertilizer to Malawi to help the latter in its efforts to produce enough food. The Japanese Ambassador to Malawi, Mr. Yoichi Oya, ...

Japan and Morocco reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen cooperation in food security and ensure a stable supply of phosphate fertilizers.

Will humanity soon be able to farm rice on the moon?A Japanese research team has developed a technology to cultivate rice in lunar soil by producing nitrogen fertilizer using only air and electricity.