The Japanese government said today (1 May) that it might have to resort to emergency butter imports as the domestic supply of milk has failed to meet demand.
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Japanese milk production has dropped since 2006 due to declining demand and shortages of raw milk now threaten butter production.
“If there is room to raise production domestically, we’d better do so,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura purportedly told reporters at a press conference.
“If there is a shortage, it will probably become necessary to make emergency imports of butter,” he concluded.
If Japan resorted to emergency imports, the government would create a body that would purchase butter from overseas at low tariffs.
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By GlobalDataJapan’s retailers have experienced butter shortages that have caused supermarkets to limit purchases-per-customer or be left with empty shelves.
