Agriculture

Agriculture in Japan developed around wet rice production, which matched the country's humid and rainy summer climate. However, there has been a change in the Japanese diet in the past 40 years or so, and people are eating less rice. The production of rice now only accounts for about twenty-five percent of all the agricultural products that are produced in Japan. Livestock, vegetables, and other agricultural products (fruits, flowers, etc.) now also account for about one-quarter each of total agricultural production. The number of people working in agriculture is declining every year. For these reasons, agriculture has become an aging industry sector in Japan.