Agricultural Improvement

【Product name】 Sweet Spring Orange 【Type】 Citrus L. 【Producing area】 The location of the head office; Minami Kumamoto, Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture, excluding former Ueki Town, Kamoto County, Jonan Town, and Tomiai Town, Shimomashiki District (JA Kumamoto City, JA Kumamoto Fruit Association) 【Origin of name】 From the image of an early spring fruit with a good flavorsome. 【Major features】 Every day, vegetable drinks were given to the staff of Kumamoto City Health Center (Oe, Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City) who are dealing with the new coronavirus. On February 9, 2022, the chairman of the JA Kumamoto Fruit Association visited the Kumamoto City Hall to give a vegetable drink and handed the mayor Onishi a list of 6000 vegetable drinks. The mayor who received it said, “I will use the new corona to manage the physical condition of the staff who are doing their best to protect the lives of the citizens.” Later, it seems that vegetable drinks were distributed to about 2,000 staff me...

【Product name】 Ruby of 越（Echizen Province and Wakasa Province in the past） 【Type】 Solanum lycopersicum 【Producing area】 Kamo, Obama City, Fukui Prefecture (Fukui Prefecture JA Group, Megumi Farm Co., Ltd.) 【Origin of name】 Originating around the Andes mountains in western South America, the indigenous Aztecs call it “tomatl” and it is widely known. , It is said to be after the Meiji era.  The godfather of “Koshi no Ruby” is Ms. Setsuko TSUMURA, a writer from Fukui prefecture who was awarded the “toy（1965）” award. The reason is that “ruby-like tomatoes were made in Koshi’s country (ECHIZEN)” because they are harvested after they are fully ripe in bright red. 【Major features】 A week has passed since Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine began in early March 2022. It seems that the path to the ceasefire has not yet been seen. A military clash in a land 8,000 km away from Japan, 10 Ukrainians live in the prefecture and are watching over the fate of their homeland. A woman who works as ...

【Product name】 Tsumagoi table-land cabbage 【Type】 Brassica oleracea var. capitata 【Producing area】 Ozasa, Tsumagoi Village, Agatsuma District, Gunma Prefecture (JA Tsumagoi Oosasa Sosai Shipping Association, Kuroiwa Farm) 【Origin of name】 Carefully nurtured in the highlands, Tsumagoi-born summer-autumn cabbage has an attractive sweetness. 【Major features】 The 69th National Sports Festival Winter Games skating competition and ice hockey competition are held in Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture. Producer Soichiro Kuroiwa (private Toyo University: Founder Enryo Inoue（1858-1919）) was born in Jikoji Temple in Ura, Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture in 1858. He was 10 years old. In 1868, he experienced the Meiji Restoration (1868), and from that year he studied Chinese classics, and then studied Western studies at the former Nagaoka Western School (now Nagaoka High School in Niigata Prefecture). Otani School of Shinshu Buddhism) and enrolled in the newly founded University of Tokyo, where he enco...

【Product name)】 Futtsu Melon（Takami） 【Type】 Cucumis melo L. 【Producing area】 Futtsu District, Futtsu City, Chiba Prefecture, Osawa District (JA Kimitsu, JA Group Chiba) 【Origin of name】 It was named Takami Melon because it is a melon with a noble and beautiful dignity and taste. 【Major features】 Shimizu Mountain Stream Square (Sasa, Kimitsu City: Nomizo Falls / Kameiwa Cave), which has recently become a hot topic, is a hidden gem that even locals know. If the timing is right, it seems that there are times when it looks like a heart ♥. Future Link Network Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture), Futtsu City, Chiba Prefecture, and Chiba Magazine Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Kisarazu City, Chiba Prefecture) will enter into an “Agreement on Dissemination of Futtsu City Administrative Information” in 2022. Signed on August 3rd. Takami melon developed by the public interest incorporated foundation Research Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding is resistant to vine splitti...

【Product name】 Hokkori 【Type】 Cucurbita maxima Duchesne ex Lam. 【wholesale area】 Inamiya, Koga City, Ibaraki Prefecture (Koga Central Fruits and Vegetables Shipping Association) 【Origin of name】 Because it's sweet, unwinded and delicious. 【Major features】 On October 25, 2022, Koga City, Ibaraki Prefecture, the National Kominka Reconstruction Association (Uchisaiwai Town, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo), and the Koga Branch of the National Empty House Advisor Council signed the nation's first "Agreement on Vacant Houses, etc." has been concluded. Through cooperation and cooperation, the number of vacant houses, including old folk houses, will be reduced, proper management and utilization will be pursued, and the local living environment will be conserved and revitalized. It seems that the main items of cooperation and cooperation include sharing information on vacant houses, controlling the occurrence and utilization of vacant houses, giving advice on the conservation and restora...