Cancellations One after another Lunch ingredients Provided as return goods for hometown tax payment March 5 13:56

In response to the recent cancellation of school lunch ingredients due to school closures due to the new coronavirus, efforts to support businesses with tax payments at home have started.

The hometown tax payment intermediary site, Hometown Choice, launched a website entitled "Support Project for New Coronavirus Victims" and called out to businesses that provide ingredients for school lunches, We have begun to raise donated items, such as lost food, as return goods.

At present, 19 businesses from 13 local governments from Hokkaido to Kyushu have started offering meat, fish, rice, and vegetables as return goods.

Of these, a local farmer's farm in Asami-mura, Nagano Prefecture, has been canceling more than 100 kilograms of locally grown rice for children to eat, and is seeking donations from 10,000 yen.

Also, in Oguni Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, milk that was supposed to be delivered to school has been quickly processed into yogurt to be kept and provided.

The company that operates the website essentially frees the settlement fees paid by local governments and calls on businesses to provide them through local governments.

A company official said, "Business owners have raised concerns that the foodstuffs for school lunches have lost their place and that disposal is costly. We want you to help us by using our hometown tax payment." I was