date:Aug 17, 2021
High-end grape variety Shine Muscat is a bona fide Japanese brand, certified by the nation's agricultural ministry. Sweet and fragrant, the grapes can fetch $60 or more per branch at groceries. But this prized breed has been widely copied by farmers in South Korea and China, who now beat Japanese counterparts in production volume.
South Korea exports five times more Shine Muscat grapes by value than Japan, while Chinese farmland devoted to the grape is more than 40 times larger than the Japanes