“If there are no more farmers, the land will be more and more degraded,” agrees Shigeyuki Osabe, a 36-year-old farmer, whose family farm cultivates rice and also serves as a place for food ...

"I'm afraid more rice farmers will be giving up." Around his farm, where he was born and raised, depopulation has progressed at an alarming rate in the last 10 years, triggering mass retirements ...