In the Yame district of Furukawa, Osaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, where the river embankment broke due to the record heavy rain the other day and the farmland was flooded over a wide area, it was almost impossible to give up the harvest of soybeans this season. There is damage.
In the Yame district of Furukawa, Osaki City, the embankment of the Nabuta River, which flows nearby, broke and water overflowed, causing damage to the farmland over a wide area.
In this area, six farmers are working together to grow soybeans in a field of about 22 hectares, but this heavy rain has flooded the field to a height of about 30 cm.
The soybeans sown from May to June had grown to the extent that they would bloom around the end of July, but this damage forced us to almost abandon the harvest this season. about it.
This is the third time in seven years that soybeans in this area have been flooded.
Kiyoichi Takahashi, the head of the Yame Farmers' Association, which grows soybeans, said, "This is the first time that damage has occurred in such a wide area. I was talking.
In the Yame area, some people had just harvested potatoes that had been stored at the front door of their house this month and were soaked in water, so they were still busy selecting what they could eat.
The man who was working on it said, "I'm in trouble because I've harvested and packed it in a box, but it's about half rotten."