It's cheap, recycled, and has centuries of tradition: "shimogoe" or "fertilizer from a person's bottom" is finding new favor in Japan as Ukraine's war hikes the price of chemical alternatives. As in ...

Skyrocketing prices for chemical fertilizers have sent officials looking to other valuable, if unappetizing, resources that are readily available in Japan to help grow food. While prices are climbing ...

TOKYO -- Japan will ramp up domestic fertilizer production to enhance economic security amid rising fertilizer prices globally due to the Ukraine war, Nikkei has learned.

OCP Group hosted Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Norikazu Suzuki and an official delegation at its Jorf Lasfar industrial complex on Saturday, the Moroccan fertilizer producer ...

The Government of Japan has given Malawi 5, 200 metric tonnes of fertilizer to Malawi to help the latter in its efforts to produce enough food. The Japanese Ambassador to Malawi, Mr. Yoichi Oya, ...

At the time, Japanese fertilizer regulations, the Act on the Quality Control of Fertilizer, did not allow fertilizer to be made from ceramic by-products. Nikko therefore approached the Ministry of ...