date:Nov 28, 2012
Both municipal governments had asked farmers to voluntarily stop planting rice shortly after the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima number one nuclear power plant began, reports Asia One.
The Hirono town government has decided to resume rice planting in all areas, and the Kawauchi village government decided to plant rice in areas other than that formerly designated as a no-entry zone.
It will be the first resumption of rice planting in areas designated as emergency evacuation prepa