the town of misato is home to 5,000 people. half of them work in agriculture. farmers grow pumpkins here. it takes months to cultivate the crops. here's what the wild animals did to the crops. >> translator: it's so shocking, it makes me regret even growing them. >> translator: my rice paddies were a total mess. i had to pull out all the seedlings and plant new ones. >> reporter: the critters responsible for most of the town's damage are boars. they wander the town at night and root through vegetable fields. people have set up over 200 cages in this area, and they capture these wild boars every day. the residents crap about 300 of them every year. they are tired of having their hard work undone by the animals and have been trying to control their numbers. boar meat makes its way onto residents' plates, but the skins are thrown away, until now. this man who works at the town hall wants to do something about waste. he thought the skins would be processed into leather. >> translator: i think we should appreciate the boar as a gift from nature. we should use every