FY2026 Staple Rice Planting Intent at 1.36 Million ha

Regarding paddy rice farming, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries provides detailed information so that production areas and producers can make planting decisions independently and produce and sell according to demand.

This release compiles the planting intentions anticipated by prefectural agricultural revitalization councils and local agricultural revitalization councils in light of supply and demand trends and related measures, and presents them by prefecture and by local agricultural revitalization council.

This information is intended to enable production areas and producers to make planting decisions independently and produce and sell according to demand.

Farming plans and related documents submitted by producers to local agricultural revitalization councils can be revised through August 20, 2026. Consequently, the survey results are expected to continue changing.

Prefectural agricultural revitalization councils and local agricultural revitalization councils compile the planting intentions they anticipate in light of supply and demand trends and related measures, based on interviews, and publish them as an interim status of efforts regarding planting intentions. This time, it is the third interim status of efforts as of the end of June 2026, presenting the results by prefecture.

The subject is the planting intention for paddy rice in FY2026, with prefecture-level details provided in the attached materials. Planting intentions by local agricultural revitalization council are also presented as the situation as of the end of June 2026.