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Japan’s rice production affected, India’s seafood exports suffer
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Wednesday, 30 March, 2011, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Mumbai
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Farmers in Fukushima prefecture, Japan’s fourth-biggest rice producer, may not plant the grain this year after tainted soil was discovered near a crippled nuclear plant leaking radiation, a report by Bloomberg said.
“Farmers cannot grow anything without assurance from the government that their paddies are safe for food production,” Takuo Ichiya, agricultural production manager at the Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives, Japan’s largest farmers group, said on Monday. “Concerns about radioactive contamination may hinder planting not only in Fukushima but neighbouring prefectures too.”
Meanwhile, another report by other agencies stated that India’s seafood exports to Japan will be affected for next six months due to the prevailing situation there.
According to an official of Marine Products Exports Development Authority (MPEDA), many of the important cities other than Tokyo and Osaka in that country are still under duress and the lull in the Japanese retail market in devastated areas have forced exporters send small quantities.
MPEDA said during 2009-10 for the first time in the history of marine product exports, the earnings crossed $ two billion. Japan, which accounts for more than 15 per cent of the Indian exports of high-value seafood products during the first nine months of the financial year was placed third after the European Union countries and the US.
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