Shimonita Negi: Overcoming Record Poor Harvest.

Breaking news "Gunma Prefecture".

By AI of "Isesaki FM".

Shimonita town, the main producing area, will begin full-scale countermeasures from April after a record poor harvest of Shimonita leeks, a specialty product representative of Gunma Prefecture. In response to "soft rot," which is believed to be the cause of the poor harvest, subsidies will be provided for the purchase of pesticides and demonstration experiments will be conducted to verify the effectiveness of the pesticides. The extreme heat and heavy rains of recent years have encouraged the proliferation of pathogens, causing widespread damage.
As the trend of high temperatures and heavy rains is expected to continue in the future, the town will hold training sessions for producers and quickly establish stable production methods.