By Yuka Obayashi

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s food self-sufficiency ratio remained at 38% in the 2024/25 fiscal year ended March 31, unchanged from a year earlier and below the government’s 2030 target of 45%, the agriculture ministry said on Friday.

The figure — one of the lowest among developed economies — underscores Japan’s vulnerability to food security risks at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions, global fragmentation and increasingly unstable weather.

The self-sufficiency ratio, which measures the share of calories consumed that are produced domestically, was supported by higher sugar output thanks to increased beet and sugarcane production.

But those gains were offset by lower yields of wheat and weaker production of soybeans, vegetables and seafood due to unfavourable weath

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