Reform or die out is question for Japan’s farmers

The Japanese government tries an experiment in mountainous rural Japan to re-populate a farming town, says the Washington Post. The population of Yabu has dropped by half in 50 years, young people move to the city for jobs, the average age of farmers is nearly 71, and “12 percent of the farmland has been abandoned as… » Read More

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