Farmers have faced heartbreaking challenges with mud in their rice paddies, and water damage to their machines. Pumps are broken, so in some cases it is impossible to get rid of waste water from rice plots, and in other cases it is impossible to pump water in.
In many cases, the sea has brought in 3 or 4 centimetres of silt to rice paddies, and salt and sulphur is preventing crops from growing.
Some farmers now have their tractors in the shop, and are painstakingly taking their engines apart to get them running again.
Farmers themselves are often aging, so in many cases the land will simply cease to be cultivated.
In many cases, farmers are just waiting for some kind of recovery plan to come from the government.
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