TOKYO -- A prolonged heat wave broiling Japan is beginning to impact crops and livestock, with vegetables becoming more expensive and prices for domestically produced pork hitting a 50-year high.
Agriculture
Japan heat wave threatens rice harvest, food price inflation
Vegetables selling for 10% to 30% more on year, pork at 50-year high
The earth is cracking in dried rice paddies in Niigata prefecture. (Photo courtesy of JA Echigo Joetsu)
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