1:00 JST,August 1, 2023
Alligator weed, an intrusive plant belonging to South America, is spreading out in Chiba Prefecture and also various other components of Japan, blocking rivers and also creating chaos in rice paddies.
Farmers have actually revealed worry regarding the spread of the marine plant, which has actually been referred to as one of the fiercest and also worst intrusive types.
“An unfamiliar weed started growing several years ago,” stated a rice farmer inChiba Prefecture “No matter how much I remove them, they never stop growing. It’s an endless battle.”
The Chiba prefectural federal government has actually asked the main federal government to locate and also money steps to remove the weed, which can be identified along the rivers in the prefecture, consisting of Akita River, a river that goes through a rice …