米離れ

こめばなれ

noun

•

shift away from rice consumption, consumers losing interest in eating rice

米	rice, USA, metre
離	detach, separation, disjoin, digress

しょうひしゃ

こめばな

こくさいしじょう

かいほう

げんいん

べいか

げらく

げんいん

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