Cabinet decision to revise the Food, Agriculture and Rural Basic Act to strengthen food security. Under the new bill that includes measures to address food shortages, if the government determines that it is necessary to prevent food shortages,.
It is possible to set the quantities of important items such as wheat and soybeans and related materials to be secured. The government's policy is to pass these bills through the current ordinary session of the Diet. Agriculture Minister Sakamoto: ``We aim to enact the bill as soon as possible''