The value of Japan’s food, agricultural, forestry and fisheries product exports in the first half of 2024 fell 1.8 percent from a year earlier to 701.3 billion yen ($4.7 billion), marking the first decline in four years due to lower shipments to China, government data showed Friday. The decrease in the January-June period reflected China’s import ban on Japanese marine products over the discharge of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The value of shipments to China dropped 43.8 percent to 78.4 billion yen, wit…