Saturday 15 October 2011
Japan
Mushroom farmers in trouble
The continuing crisis at Japan's Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant has affected this year's autumn culinary delicacies in Fukushima Prefecture.
The prefecture's annual matsutake mushroom-hunting event for tourists has been cancelled. Pears, the area's speciality, are sold at some farm stands, marked with the amount of radioactive contamination. But the normally packed farmers' markets are almost empty.
The prefecture's annual matsutake mushroom-hunting event for tourists has been cancelled. Pears, the area's speciality, are sold at some farm stands, marked with the amount of radioactive contamination. But the normally packed farmers' markets are almost empty.
Farmers have been trying to gain consumers' confidence in their products and some rice farmers asked private institutes to measure the amount of radiation in their crops.
Source: newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk
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