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A farmer dumps raw milk in a hole made at his farmland in Kawamata, northeastern Japan, March 30. 200 tons of raw milk produced in Fukushima is wasted per day, Kyodo News reports. The March 11 earthquake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that barreled onshore and disabled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
The frustration must be great among farmers in the Fukushima zone who are having to dump their harvests due to radiation concerns -- especially in the case of milk farmers, whose cows will keep producing regardless of the nearby nuclear disaster.
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