Fukushima village begins sowing rice for 1st time since nuclear crisis

Rice planting for commercial sales began on Wednesday in a village in Fukushima Prefecture for the first time since the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011.A total of eight farming households in the village of Iitate plan to resume growing rice this year in a combined area of about 7 hectares after evacuation orders were lifted at the end of March for large parts of the village contaminated by radiation following the nuclear crisis.The reduced total arable area compares to around 690 hectares before the disaster, according to the village.The farmers will conduct ra…READ FULL ARTICLE