One of Japan's major sources of food is rice, and there are many fields and areas dedicated to rice production in Japan. The recent tsuanmi and earthquake has desemated a lot of the fields where rice was grown, debris and other materials scattered all around the fields. In an article written by Jay Alabaster, a rice farmer comments rice production after the disaster, "If we start washing the soil out now, we can start growing our rice seedlings at the end of April at a different location, and plant them here a month later," It's great that people took on such optomistic attitudes after this tragedy,and working hard to rebuild. Knowing that rice is such a big product i wonder if genetically modified rice has been considered. Other than some malnourishment after the tsuanmi, and earthquake radiation poisoning from the nuclear powerplant has also been a major problem. This leads to my next question, : Could there be a way to genetically modify rice in order to help ease some of the symptoms of radiation poisoning?
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