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@zetu_rrr "A country where copper wire thieves kill rice" It's horrifying to see rice paddies drying up right after planting. Copper wire cables were stolen from a pumping station in Tono-cho, Chiba Prefecture, shutting down the facility. Water can no longer be sent to the rice paddies, and the seedlings are drying out. Isn't that terrible? Moreover, this pumping station is also a disaster prevention facility that prevents flooding during heavy rains. This means that not only will the rice wither, but there is also a risk of flooding in the next heavy rain. Another pumping station in the same town was also affected. It was also done in neighboring Katori City in February. This has never happened before... 65% of those arrested for metal theft are foreigners. The annual damage is 14 billion yen. What kind of deal is it where stealing tens of thousands of yen worth of copper wire kills a farmer's year? We can't let Japan's food supply be destroyed for the price of copper wire! @inari_shoten · 4h China controls nearly 70% of the world's matcha market, a product Japan taught them how to make. Starbucks and Häagen-Dazs are switching to cheaper Chinese-made tea. Japanese tea factories are closing down. Tea farmers are being cut off. Whose money is this "pride of Japan" going to? News @inari_shoten · 1d Rice reserves are only enough for 15 days But the budget goes to cultured meat and plant factories. Rice farmers are aging. Rice paddies are falling into disrepair While saying "food security is important," real farmland is quietly disappearing. Money isn't going to the rice farmers. Money is going to the technology that makes rice farming unnecessary Does this country want to protect its food supply? Or does it want to create a future without farmers?
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@Coco2Poppin · 1d ⚠️Professor Nobuhiro Suzuki of the University of Tokyo makes a scathing remark‼️ "The theory of overprotection of agriculture is completely wrong!" If it were overprotected, incomes should rise, the number of successors should increase, and abandoned farmland should decrease. Yet, we have low incomes, an aging population over 70, a shortage of successors, and a growing number of abandoned farmlands… Moreover, the government is still effectively continuing its rice production reduction policy, suppressing rice production, and has no intention of increasing stockpiles, so Japan's national rice reserves are only enough for 15 days… What do they think will happen to the lives of the people if an emergency occurs?! Continuing the rice production reduction policy is dangerous enough, but only having 15 days' worth of staple food stockpiles... they clearly have no intention of protecting the people
