MAFF Permits Rice Planting in Evacuation Zone/Fukushima City Rice Started Being Served for School Lunch

Fukushima Diary Posted by Mochizuki on January 21st, 2013 · 1 Comment Share on twitterShare on linkedinShare on facebookShare on emailMore Sharing Services Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries permitted rice planting in 96 households (73 ha) of evacuation zone in Tamura city Fukushima, where the annual dose is under 20mSv/y. They also permitted 1200 households to produce rice in Fukushima, Soma, Nihonmatsu and Da-te city, where is 380 ha in total. In 2012, rice planting was not permitted in these areas. In order to preserve rice field and the motivation of farmers, MAFF is going to permit rice planting in other evacuation zones (under 20mSv/y) on the requests residents too. http://blog.goo.ne.jp/okawaraarishige/e/d9ec2e8fd74f89f867a012005e7b2f81

Fukushima city rice started being served for school lunch, “will serve if it’s under 20 Bq/Kg” Posted by Mochizuki on January 23rd, 2013 · 1 Comment Share on linkedinShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailMore Sharing Services On 1/22/2013, Fukushima city started serving local rice for school lunch. They are to serve rice produced in Fukushima city if it’s under 20 Bq/Kg. All the schools will serve local rice by the end of this month. MAFF permits rice planting even in the evacuation zone in order to keep farmers motivated. (cf, MAFF permits rice planting in evacuation zone [Link1]) In early January, 208 Bq/Kg of cesium was measured even from rice produced in Miyagi prefecture. It turned out at least 39 tones of the rice from contaminated farm were already shipped out to the metropolitan area etc.. (cf, 39 tones of rice from the contaminated region in Miyagi were already shipped to metropolitan area etc [Link2]) http://www.fct.co.jp/news/#201301222200340