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For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision Add us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevision Radiation fears in Japan's Fukushima prefecture, home of the stricken nuclear plant, is devastating the dairy farm industry. Farmers are having to throw away thousands of liters of milk each day, because they can't sell it... over concerns the milk may be radioactive. Only a few miles from fields destroyed by last month's massive tsunami, one family of dairy farmers is struggling with another disaster -- the radiation released from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The Japanese government ordered a halt to all shipments of spinach, green vegetables and unprocessed milk from dairies in Fukushima prefecture last month, after radiation was found in samples collected in produce from the area and in Ibaraki prefecture. Last Friday (April 8) the government placed restrictions on milk produced in Kitakata, Fukushima prefecture, and the Mito family farm in the town of Shinchi, Fukushima has yet to be cleared. Even so, Mutsuo Mito starts milking his herd every morning with his wife and son, knowing it is no longer permitted to be sold. [Mutsuo Mito, Dairy Farmer]: "We have 48 cows that are currently giving milk, and so we produce about 1,200 liters of milk a day. But due to the radiation, I'm taking it and throwing it away in my field." Mito said that while he changed the cows' diet to reduce the amount of milk they produce, he is still forced to throw away milk every two days. The family has submitted samples to the government twice already, but has not yet been told whether they are allowed to sell their milk. [Takahiro Mito, Dairy Farmer]: "We never seem to have a definite black or white answer, which makes it so that we aren't able to say anything definite either. If there's something wrong, I just wish they'd say that clearly." Although radiation levels around the farm are extremely low, Takahiro's pregnant wife and five-year-old son have moved north to live with relatives until the nuclear disaster calms down. Once the milk holding tank is full, Mito loads it into a 2,500 liter sprayer pulled by a tractor which he drives to one of his fields to be dumped into the soil. While the government has promised compensation, Mito still has to pay about $23,000 a month to feed his cows, while receiving no revenue. The government halted shipments of milk and other products from Fukushima prefecture after radioactive material above allowable levels was found in raw milk in the area.