date:Nov 28, 2019
ion yen (US$17,160) worth of root vegetables were stolen in the raid, which was made all the easier by the fact that the farmer, who has not been named, did not lock the warehouse door.
Given a number of recent robberies across the country in recent weeks, that oversight was a mistake. Another farmer in the same prefecture had 2.7 tonnes of harvested sweet potatoes stolen a few weeks ago, while 390kg of premium Koshihikari rice valued at US$3,578 was purloined from a farm in Niigata prefectur