In response to the soaring wheat prices, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has begun efforts to promote products that use rice flour instead of wheat flour.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, wheat exports are expected to decline in the future from Ukraine, which has been invaded by Russia.
The price of wheat is soaring, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has begun efforts to support the production and sale of bread using rice flour instead of wheat flour, and to promote products by preparing banners and posters by the city. rice field.
A major non-life insurance company in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, which took advantage of this initiative, began selling bagels made from rice flour at a shop in the company's cafeteria on the 4th.
On the 4th, Governor Koike also visited and said, "I focused on rice flour, thinking about how to secure food in Japan. I think that reviewing domestically produced rice will have a positive effect on farmers." I was talking.
The female employee who bought it immediately said, "It's not much different from a bagel made of wheat flour. It's chewy and delicious."
Another female employee said, "Japan's food self-sufficiency rate may improve, and I'm happy if I can contribute."
Kayoko Sakai, director of Sompo Japan Insurance Co., Ltd., which started selling rice flour bagels, said, "I heard that Tokyo is focusing on it, and I cooperated with it."