Small organisms have media benefits and large agriculture earns 27.1 billion.

Original title: small creatures have great abilities: bees and other bees make great contributions to Japanese agriculture every year.

Honeybees make great contributions to Japanese agriculture.

According to Japanese media reports, the research team of the Japan Institute of Agricultural Environmental Technology, located in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture, recently estimated that insects such as bees that can spread pollen and pollination bring about 470 billion (27.1 billion yuan) of economic benefits to Japanese agriculture every year.

According to Japanese media, about 70% of them are created by wildlife, making a particularly prominent contribution to the cultivation of fruit trees such as apples, cherries and plums in Japan.

It is reported that this is the first time in Japan to estimate the economic value of pollen-borne organisms, including wildlife. Akihiro Onuma, the institute's lead researcher, stressed the importance of protecting these creatures. "Europe and the United States are already facing the problem of a decline in the number of bees," he said. Once a similar problem occurs in Japan, it may threaten the decline in agricultural production and the increase in production costs. "

Based on the data of agricultural output value of various prefectures in Japan in 2013 and the dependence of various crops on insect pollination, the team estimated the economic contribution of pollen-transmitting organisms to agricultural production. The contribution totaled about 473.1 billion yen, accounting for about 8.3 per cent of total crop production. In addition to fruit trees, it also makes considerable contributions to the production of melons, watermelons, tomatoes and eggplants.

Japanese media also pointed out that compared with the economic contribution of farmed western bees and bumblebees totaling about 105.6 billion yen, the contribution of wildlife dominated by insects is as high as 333 billion yen, which shows that there are many benefits of protecting wildlife. (Chinanews.com, Feb. 22)