(2) Emergency responses to the earthquake-tsunami disaster, and restoration/reconstruction efforts

① While it was very difficult to secure food and drink in the disaster-damaged areas, the MAFF food procurement team procured food and other goods by requesting support from food makers and others. Agriculture cooperative organizations, private companies and others provided food and other goods in their emergency response to the disaster.

② MAFF implemented the following emergency measures for the agriculture and food industries:

1) Restoration of farmlands, agricultural facilities, etc. (emergency measures for drainage pumping stations and other facilities, creation of a mechanism for central and prefectural governments to implement salt removal, farmland restoration and other measures on behalf of municipal governments, etc.)

2) Restoration of means of production and distribution functions (restoration of agricultural production facilities, support for restoration of wholesale markets, etc.)

3) Support for business continuation and resumption (financial aid to collaborative groups for regional agricultural recovery in disaster-damaged areas, Japan Finance Corporation's disaster recovery loans with zero-real-interest, etc.)

③ MAFF and the Tohoku Regional Agricultural Administration Office formed local support teams to help resume farming in disaster-damaged areas as widely as possible

(Goods procured by food procurement team, etc.)

Period	Aid goods	Procurement volume
March 11-April 20	Food	25.84 million packs
Formula milk for infants	53 thousand cans
Drinks	7.62 million bottles (3.81 million liters)
March 17-April 6	Fuel oil	800 kiloliters
Diesel oil	420 kiloliters
March 17-April 6	Charcoal	26 tons
Braziers	1,300 sets
March 17-29	Wood stoves burners	113 units

(Salt removal procedures)

Source: MAFF

①Seawater-damaged farmland

②Constructing temporary diversion canals or creasing channels

③Pouring lime soil conditioner

Source: MAFF

⑤Reverse plowing/soil crushing

④Mole draining

(Wholesale market restoration: Iwaki City Central Wholesale Market)

March 12: A slope collapsed just after the earthquake.

June 21: Filling cracks in emergency slope restoration

September 2: Laying blue sheets in emergency slope restoration

④ On August 26, MAFF published the Basic Guidelines for Reconstruction of Agriculture and Rural Communities after the Great East Japan Earthquake (revised on November 21), specifying a farmland restoration schedule (restoration within about three years) and measures required for the restoration.

⑤ On December 7, 2011, the Law for Special Zone for Reconstruction (special reconstruction zone system) was enacted, providing for special regulation and procedural measures for special reconstruction zones where farmlands and residential lands can be reconstructed integrally.

(Area of tsunami-damaged farmlands available for farming resumption)

Prefecture	Farming resumed in FY2011	Farming to be resumed in FY2012	Farming to be resumed in FY2013	Farming to be resumed in FY2014	Others	Total
Iwate	10	310	30	0	380	730
Miyagi	1,220	5,390	5,450	1,970	310	14,340
Fukushima	60	610	2,670	2,120	5,460
Total	1,290	6,310	5,480	4,640	2,810	20,530
Share	40%	26%	22%	13%	100%
Aomori, Ibaraki, Chiba	810	140	0	0	0	950

Source: MAFF

## (Special measures for land-use realignment in tsunami-damaged areas)

◆ Easing approval standards under the Agricultural Land Act and other laws

One-stop procedure for zoning, approval and project planning

Source: MAFF