Keeping Crops Clean (NHK video)

January 15, 2014

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/newsline/201401151300.html 

Farmers in the Fukushima area have had to be creative to face consumers’ suspicions that their produce is still contaminated.

Some people are growing  stuff in a closed environment (eg. mushrooms  or vegetables that use only clean water, not soil). A lettuce produced in this way and which doesn’t need washing  is being sold all the way to Tokyo.

The farmers hope this kind of initiative will help Fukushima farmers to recover.