Toyota Australia Donates Diesel Prado For Rice-Growing Trial
Toyota Australia has donated a diesel Prado to a group of Japanese rice farmers working in North Queensland to trial the growing of Japanese rice. The farmers are from the tsunami-devastated area of Fukishima prefecture, Japan. Farming land the
Toyota Australia has donated a diesel Prado to a group of Japanese rice farmers working in North Queensland to trial the growing of Japanese rice.
The farmers are from the tsunami-devastated area of Fukishima prefecture, Japan.
Farming land there was inundated by salt water and much of it rendered unusable for up to 40 years by radiation poisoning following the 2011 Great East earthquake, tsunami and subsequent reactor melt-down.
The “Iwaki World Tambo Project”, as the scheme is called and which has now been running for more than a year, is aiming to create a new rice industry in Queensland while also providing an alternative location for growing the Japanese food staple.