The Tokyo Grain Exchange, operator of Japan’s largest agricultural bourse, has revived rice futures trading, Bloomberg reports. The exchange will list rice contracts for the first time since World War II started. Through the new contract, the bourse seeks to increase overall volume on the exchange to 40,000 lots a day on average by March from 9,626 lots a day in June. The Tokyo exchange will delist robusta coffee futures and non-genetically modified soybean futures in 2011 on shrinking volumes.

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