TOKYO, May 30 (Xinhua) — The Japanese authorities stated Tuesday it plans to speed up work to chop down and substitute cedar bushes, a supply of pollen identified to set off hay fever, trigger allergic reactions for tens of millions of individuals in Japan.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tetsuro Nomura and different officers permitted the technique on Tuesday with the purpose of chopping the pollen depend in half over 30 years.
Japan has 4.31 million hectares of planted cedar forests producing pollen. The technique goals to extend the scale of such forests reduce all the way down to some 70,000 hectares a 12 months over a decade from 50,000 hectares at current.
The authorities may even promote the alternative of current cedar bushes with these producing much less pollen or different bushes, in a bid to make cedar saplings with much less pollen to account for over 90 p.c of all cedar saplings in 10 years.
Kishida stated that hay fever is a reason for struggling for a lot of residents and a social drawback that has not been addressed successfully, including {that a} long-term method is required to sort out it.