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 a district with 23 residents in 12 households in the city of Oda ¡ª 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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