date:Oct 18, 2019
The city of Sano, in Japan's Tochigi Prefecture, is struggling to recover from the damage left in the wake of Typhoon Hagibis. The owners of flooded farms growing the prefecture's mainstay Tochiotome-brand strawberry now fear that their plants may not bear fruit in time for picking season.
Tochigi Prefecture is a major strawberry producer, leading the country in yields for the past 51 years. Demand for strawberries spikes from November with the fruit being used for Christmas cakes and other sea