The Saitama prefectural government in Japan will compensate vegetable growers in Tokorozawa who lost money during a recent dioxin-contamination scare, officials said Tuesday. The Saitama officials said the prefecture expects to pay up to 20,000 yen for each farming household in the area for losses sustained after a television report in early February suggested their produce contained high levels of the cancer-causing chemical. The prefecture's agricultural industry suffered a government-estimated 400 million yen in losses after a Feb. 1 TV Asahi program reported that dangerously high concentrations of dioxin had been found in spinach and other vegetables grown in western Saitama.