Fukushima Prefecture's agricultural and fishery production has not recovered to levels seen before the nuclear crisis a decade ago, with those in the local industries still struggling to overcome the reputational hit their products sustained.A total of 17,298 hectares of farmland around the crippled plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture was abandoned following the nuclear disaster triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011.It was the world's worst nuclear incident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.Many farmers were forced off their land as it was c…READ FULL ARTICLE
