## 2 Impacts of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of the Tokyo Electric Power Company and restoration/reconstruction efforts

Power Company and restoration/reconstruction efforts
O MAFF has supported efforts toward the resumption of farming in the evacuation areas such as the conservation and management of decontaminated farmland and pilot farming.
O To allow only agricultural and livestock products with radiation readings below the safety standards to be distributed, the government has combined radioactive material reduction and absorption restriction measures with post-harvest inspections to secure safety. These initiatives have substantially reduced agricultural and livestock products that exceed the safety standard levels for radioactive materials. The numbers of products and areas subject to shipment restrictions have declined.
Promoting local chicken for reconstruction
Kawamata Town in Fukushima Prefecture has developed the Kawamata Shamo gamecock, which is juicy and rich while just as resilient as ordinary gamecocks. It has launched a public corporation for producing baby birds and processing and selling gamecock products, which has built a stable shipment system along with 14 farming households that grow the gamecocks. Due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant accident triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake, however, Kawamata Shamo sales in the year after the disaster year plunged 40%. The corporation developed indoor poultry growing facilities and conducted steady sales promotion to explore new sales channels. In 2014, shipments totaled about 65,000 birds, exceeding the pre-disaster level, with the sales value recovering. In the town, many “Kawamata Shamo” banners are seen, with the chicken established as a material for ramen noodles and oyakodon, a bowl of rice topped with broiled chicken and eggs.
In the future, the town plans to promote the Kawamata Shamo for reconstruction under the annual sales target of 80,000 birds.

Kawamata Shamo being grown
Ratios of agricultural and livestock products exceeding radioactive safety standards (17 prefectures)
(Unit: %)
Category	Until the end of FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015
Rice	2.2	0.0008	0.0003	0.00002	0
Wheat and barley	4.8	0	0	0	0
Pulse	2.3	1.1	0.4	0.1	0
Vegetables	3.0	0.03	0	0	0
Fruits	7.7	0.3	0	0	0
Tea	8.6	1.5	0	0	0
Other cultivated plants (including buckwheat)	3.2	0.5	0	0	0.1
Raw milk	0.4	0	0	0	0
Meat and eggs (excluding wildlife meat)	1.3	0.005	0	0	0
Source: Prepared by MAFF from data provided by MHLW and local governments
Note: As of March 28, 2016
O Given lingering harmful rumors about food products, the government enhanced countermeasures against harmful rumors by promoting measures against polluted water and disseminating accurate radiation risk information in Japan and other countries.
O Many foreign countries and regions tightened their import control measures on Japanese agricultural, forestry and fisheries products including food due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. As a result of negotiations with those countries and regions, some of them have relaxed or abolished these control measures.
Example of countries and regions which have relaxed or abolished their import control measures
[US] April, May and August 2015, January, February and March 2016 Import suspension (Fukushima and 3 other prefectures) → removal (some items)
[Thailand] May 2015
Lifting restrictions (excluding those on some wild animals)
[Russia] July 2015
Import suspension (fisheries products from 8 prefectures) → Lifting suspension for Aomori Prefecture (allowing imports with inspection certificates)
[EU] January 2016
Reducing areas and products subject to certificates of inspection and origin (excluding vegetables and fruits [other than persimmon], livestock products, soba noodles, tea, etc. in Fukushima Prefecture from those subject to certificates of inspection)
[India] February 2016
Lifting restrictions
* As of March 2016, 12 countries/regions including Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and South Korea maintain suspension of import from certain regions including Fukushima Prefecture

Source: Prepared by MAFF based on materials from the Reconstruction Agency

Source: MAFF