date:Jul 22, 2013
Farmers in Central China's Hunan province, a major grain-producing area, have suffered huge losses during the summer harvest season due to the impact of a scandal involving cadmium-tainted rice.
Li Fangming, a farmer from the city of Yiyang, has yet to sell any of his early summer rice.
I heard about the cadmium scandal earlier this year, but I never expected that its impact would be so great, Li said.
Three mills in Hunan's city of Zhuzhou were ordered to recall their products and suspend bu