The Agri-Reconstruction Project and Rapeseed Project for Restoring Tsunami-Salt- Damaged Farmland After the GEJE – An Institutional Effort - Post-Tsunami Hazard: Reconstruction and Restoration - page 291

Fig. 18.4 Mustard and rapeseed showed well growth in the damaged paddy fi eld (10th December
2011; Wakabayashi Ward, Sendai City. Source Photo: Yutaka Nakai)

Table 18.3 Support received from partner organizations cooperating with the rapeseed restoration
project
Partner organization Type of support

Miyagi Prefecture Soil surveys

Sendai City Demonstration trials

Chida Cleaning, Ltd. Demonstration trials and BDF production

EAC Corporation Soil surveys and others

Miyaka Co., Ltd. Demonstration trials, rapeseed vegetable sales

Local farmers Demonstration trials: Arai, Wakabayashi Ward and Oshiwake,

Iwanuma City

Kinari Inc. Donations from the sale of eco-bags

Kureha Corporation Donations from the sales of wrapping fi lms and others

Kirin Co., Ltd. Donations from beer sale and others

spring, and although the stems were short, the fi eld was fi lled with yellow fl owers. 2
Harvested before full bloom, the kizakinonatane sold well as edible vegetable rape-
seed, and a food preparation method was developed for the plant. A technique was
devised for manufacturing preserved fl owers from pre-fl owering Brassicaceae

2 One of the project's major achievements was a comment by a neighboring farmer, who stated,
“Despite the almost total devastation, I was greatly encouraged by the rapeseed fl owers that sprang
up strongly, just as we have done.”