Soichi Tojima, 74, a member of an?agricultural committee in a rural Shimane Prefecture district, looks up at a large hole in the ceiling of a plastic greenhouse in frustration.
※A baby monkey tore it,§ Tojima says. ※They jump in from above, you know.§
Last fall, wild monkeys converged on Hongo 〞 a district with 23 residents in 12 households in the city of Oda 〞 and devoured grapes at an orchard right before harvest. The owner of the farm had forgotten to turn on an electric fence.
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