Hello, everyone. This is a last time. Today,
I will talk about some problems of rice.
First, modern Japanese don’t eat too much
rice because kind of staple food has increased in Japan. It has begun to change
Japanese life style since around 1965. Many foods is importing from abroad. They
began to eat a lot of meat and fish. Opportunity to eat rice was reduced. So
people began a new attempt.
It is rice flour. It looks similar to wheat
flour. It is used instead of wheat flour. Bread using rice flour is soft and
delicious. However it culture is not yet well known for the Japanese. It will
be also used for other foods.
Second, the number of rice farmers has
decreased in Japan. On 2010, the number of rice farmers is about 1159 million
in Japan.
People start some campaigns in order to
increase the farmers. Farmers give rice fields cheaply to young people who are
interested in rice farming. And the Japanese government will help people to
start rice farming. There are also plans to export rice to other countries but
the problem has not been solved yet. This is a very difficult problem.
Japanese fermers |
Old people will do most of the agriculture. Rice farmers have a hard time every day. They can’t lest because they
need to make a delicious rice. In addition, making rice isn’t profitable. So they
need to do other works. For example, they do both agricultural and company
work. They must have a lot of money to create the environment. Please remember
to see week 4. Japanese young people will not want to do the farming.
the article of Fukushima's rice |
Third, we were faced with a big problem on March
11. It is the nuclear accident of Fukushima. It gave a heavy blow to farmers. Harmful
substance has got off to a rice field. They will not be able to harvest rice.
It will take a long time to clean the rice fields. We haven’t found ways how to
resolve yet. However the rice farmers want to go back Fukushima someday. I’m
praying that their wishes come true.
Japanese are having a lot of problems but
we will continue to eat in the future. Japanese can’t live without rice.
Thank you for reading all my articles. It was
difficult for me but I could get a lot of knowledge about rice. I hope you eat
rice in Japan if you haven’t eaten rice. You will be able to understand a
little about the culture of Japan. Food and culture are closely involved.
Goodbye, and please attention to your body.