Amid a continued rice shortage and rising rice prices, the Japanese government has finally has taken measures to supply its citizens with rice at a reasonable price.

Agriculture Minister Koizumi announced that a 5kg bag of rice from the 2023 harvest (old rice 古米) and the 2022 harvest (older rice 古古米) will be offered for 2000 yen, and the 2021at the same amount of pounds of rice from the 2021 harvest (oldest rice 古古古米) will be for 1800 yen.

As the current price for the 2024 crop (new rice 新米) is more than 4000 yen, the prices of the government’s stockpiled rice are surprisingly low.

However, everyone knows that old rice, especially 古古古米, is not very delicious, so I wonder if people really will prefer them to rice that's much more expensive rice.

The stable supply and price maintenance of rice depends on the government.

Amid a continued rice shortage and rising rice prices, the Japanese government finally has taken measures to supply its citizens rice at a reasonable price.

Agricultureal Minister Koizumi announced that a 5kg bag of rice from the 2023 harvest (old rice 古米) and the 2022 (older rice 古古米) harvests will be offered for 2000 yen and the 2021(. Rice from 2021 (the oldest rice 古古古米) will be for 1800 yen.

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Amid a continued rice shortage and rising rice prices, the Japanese government has finally has taken measures to supply its citizens rice at a reasonable price.

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This sentence does make sense, but it's not natural. This is how I would say it.

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A few extra words not needed.

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Again, this makes sense but I've put in a more natural sentence.

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The number of rice farmers is decreasing, and their wages are not enough to live on.

You need to add what it's not enough for.

The stable supply and price maintenance of rice depend on the government.

The stable supply and price maintenance of rice is very government dependent.

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Agriculture Minister Koizumi announced that a 5kg bag of rice from the 2023 harvest (old rice 古米) and the 2022 (older rice 古古米) will be offered for 2000 yen and the, while that from 2021 (oldest rice 古古古米) will be for 1800 yen.

(1) We don't put "the" directly before year numbers. If we want to use "the", we'd write "the year 2022". If you meant to refer to the 2022 harvest (rather than the year), the reader will be able to understand that, since you'd already written "2023 harvest".

(2) Alternatively, if you insist on specifying that "2022" refers to that year's harvest, repeating the word "harvest" is fine: "a 5kg bag of rice from the 2023 harvest (...) and 2022 harvest (...)". You could also combine the two: "a 5kg bag of rice from the 2023 (...) and 2022 harvests (...)".

(3) I'd suggest both the addition of a comma and replacing "and" with "while", because consecutive use of "and" in a lengthy sentence doesn't make it very easy to read.

As the current price for the 2024 crop (new rice 新米) is more than 4000 yen, the prices of government’s stockpiled rice are surprisingly low.

I think using "the" is more natural, especially because in this context, "crop" represents an amount (crop: an amount of produce harvested at one time). As another example, "the price for 2024 harvest" also sounds unnatural to me, because "harvest" also represents a quantity.