Farmers Use Ducklings For Promoting Organic Rice Farming

TATSUNO, JAPAN - JUNE 17: Tadashi Ichihara (L) plants rice seedlings using a Minoru RS4, rice trans-planter and his wife Makiko Ichihara dropping natural fertilizer named Komenuka on their organic rice field on June 17, 2015 in Tatsuno, Japan. Japanese rice farmer Tadashi Ichihara works with 280 ducklings to eliminate weeds and insects in the rice fields. Ichihara invented this "Aigamo Method," a method of using ducklings as the alternative to chemicals in the rice farming in 1999. Approximately one hundred rice farmers have applied Aigamo Method and have been promoting organic rice farming in Japan. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)