A male farmer in Kamimikawa Town, Tochigi Prefecture is cultivating "atomic bomb rice," which has been grown from rice that was bombed in Nagasaki 77 years ago, in order to encourage people to think about peace through familiar crops.
Mr. Choichi Ueno (71), a farmer in Kamimikawa Town, cultivates "atomic bomb rice" in a corner of a paddy field, which has been grown from rice that was exposed to the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki 77 years ago.
The "atomic bomb rice" was brought back from a paddy field near the hypocenter by a researcher at Kyushu University for research, and it is said that he received the seed rice and began to grow it.
This rice plant seems to be growing well this summer, but the rice ears harvested in the fall usually have a large percentage of "empty rice" that does not contain the contents, and this is caused by a chromosomal abnormality. about it.
Mr. Ueno introduced the rice plant to the local elementary school when he gave a visiting lecture on agriculture in order to let people know about the effects of the atomic bombing. I was talking.