In 1993 Japanese economy is continuing to be a business recession as well as last year. In 1991 agricultural total products was ¥7 900 billion it occupied 17 of GNP. The imports of agricultural products are on the increase. In 1992 the imports reached ¥29 550 billion, which means that Japan is the greatest food importing country. In Japan, feed cereals, soybean, wheat and so on depend on the imports from foreign countries. Self-sufficiency ratio of cereals was under 30. This figure is the low rate of all the advanced countries. On the other hand, agricultural exports was ¥1 370 billion.
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