Part 4 in a series
During the potato harvest season in September, Taiki Harada, 41, had trouble hiring workers to help him on his 100 hectares of farmland in and around the town of Kutchan in Hokkaido.
“There is no one to drive the harvesting machinery,” he lamented. “It was much easier last year.”
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