Gardenality.com · Gardenality Genius · Zone 8A · 10° to 15° F
I, and just about everybody else in the Southeast U.S., consider kudzu to be an unwelcome, invasive weed, which it is when left to grow wild and out of control. This being said, people in some countries grow it as a vegetable plant for it's leaves and roots. Must not be invasive in these countries? Farmers in some countries use it as a cover crop to add nitrogen into the soil.

SJVanek · Gardenality Bud · Zone 8A · 10° to 15° F · Comment About Problems
There is no doubt about the invasiveness of this plant. It is absolutely devastating the amount of ecological damage this one plant has caused in the southern United States! I would be extremely cautious of planting it anywhere except its native range (basically I would NOT plant it at all). Many many many invasive plants are not invasvie right away. There is usually a lag period before it becomes invasive. By then, it's often too late.

Chason Arthur · Gardenality Administrator · Zone 8A · 10° to 15° F
Living in Georgia I know all about this guy :)