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Damage to agriculture amounts to

Compensation to farmers: 35000Yen to 50000Yen (US$427 to $610) per unit of land size

Cultivating fields ruined by the tsunami will take 3 years to recover

sodium level is 20 times the normal

Fresh water is being pumped into damaged fields to dilute the salt level and then drained away

so that the fields can be used again

For combating radiation particles in the field, scientists are experimenting growing sunflowers

Once the fields are usable, giant sunflowers

absorb cesium and potassium in the soil

They are then processed in special machines

to be broken down in one to two days (Hope that really works)

In Ishimakishi of Miyagi prefecture, there's 3000 deaths, 2700 missing and 28000 houses destroyed

This school there

is

in

ruins

Radiation will be taught in science class in high school from next year

Two ways to deal with radiation-contaminated soil: interchange the top and bottom soil

or bury a big pile of contaminated soil in deep pits lined with plastic sheets

The second method is being used in a school playground

in Fukushima prefecture's Nihonmatsu City

GDP is -3.7%

greatly due to the 3/11 triple disaster

production and consumption are down

Part of the local train line in hard-hit Ishimaki city resumed operation on May 19

But 70% of the rail zone is still damaged