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Japan farmers plant, pray for radiation-free rice
Last year's crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings. He's living up to his family's proud, six-generation history of rice farming, and praying that this time his harvest will not have too much radiation to sell.That conflict is shared by several thousand farmers in more than 7,000 hectares (17,000
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