米離れ

こめばなれ

Also written コメばなれ, コメ離れ

Meanings

1. Noun shift away from rice consumption; consumers losing interest in eating rice

Kanji

• 米 rice. Read as こめ.
• 離 apart. Read as はなれる.

Example sentences

• 消費者の米離れや国際市場解放が原因とされる米価の下落が原因だ。
  It is the drop in the rice pricing (blamed on consumers' loss of interest in rice and the freeing up of the international market) that is the cause.

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