Farm, fisheries damage grows to 64 bil. yen for Japan rain disaster

Damage to the agricultural, forestry and fisheries industries from the recent deadly torrential rain in Japan has been expanding, government data showed Friday.It totaled 64.8 billion yen ($576 million) in 35 of the country's 47 prefectures as of Thursday, up from 7.2 billion yen estimated nine days earlier, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.The ministry said the figure could rise further and top the amounts recorded in similar rain disasters during recent years, 126.5 billion yen in 2012 and 112.2 billion yen last year, both marked after torrential rains in t…READ FULL ARTICLE