Agricultural Improvement

【Product name】 Green star cabbage 【Type】 Brassica oleracea var. capitata 【Production area/wholesale area】 Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Hayama Town, Miura District, Zushi City (JA Yokosuka Hayama, Winter and Spring Vegetable Shipping Subcommittee) 【Origin of name】 At the time of 2004, it seems that there was a need to establish a “Green Star（For green (color), [plant] lush, [like a lush plant] youthful, energetic, [fruit] blue, immature, environmental protection [related] ], Environmentally friendly, environmentally conscious, and pollution-free.）” brand, stabilize production, and consider varieties to meet diverse market demands. At the Miura Proving Ground, we are looking for varieties with higher quality and productivity that are as cold-resistant as “Haruharumaru”.  “SC9-455” (Sakata) and “T762” (Takii) were found as promising varieties, and it seems that they were testing while changing the sowing time. Cold resistance is in the order of “SC9-455”, “Haruharumaru”, “T762”...

【Product name】 Setoka 【Type】 Citrus L. 【Wholesale area】 Hada, Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture (Kagami Fruit Agricultural Cooperative Association) 【Origin of name】 The variety names are Hayasaki Seto（Known as the strait between the Shimabara Peninsula and the Amakusa Islands）, “Setouchi region”, and “fragrance”. Old: Named registered varieties: Registration number: Tangor Norin No. 8 Registration date: August 21, 1998（Kuchinotsu No. 19） 【Major features】 In early March 2022, a child in Karatsu picked up a ginkgo that had fallen from a maiden hair tree in an elementary school and donated a portion of the money he earned to support Ukraine in Eastern Europe. Ukrainian people are having a lot of trouble from the children, so please use it. It is said that it was the children of Ikisa (Ochi Town) Elementary School who donated 20,000 yen to the Karatsu City Council of Social Welfare. Every year at the elementary school, as part of the comprehensive study, all the school children and staff colle...

【Product name】 Koshu dried persimmon 【Type】 Diospyros kaki Thunb. 【Producing area】 Enzan Mikka Market, Koshu City, Yamanashi Prefecture (JA Fruits Yamanashi Matsuri Branch Joint Office) 【Origin of name】 The name “rolling persimmon” comes from the fact that when peeled persimmons are lined up in the garden and dried in the sun, the positions of the persimmons are changed at appropriate intervals so that the entire persimmon is exposed to the sun. It seems that it is said that there is. In addition, dried persimmons are generally called KORO persimmons, but the etymology of the persimmons is that they have a round shape or are made by rolling them, so there are theories such as the meaning of persimmons and the meaning of persimmons (powdered persimmons). The mainly used “Koshu Hyakume Persimmon” was originally called “Koshu momme”, and I heard that it got this name because it has a size of 100 momme (= about 375 grams). Mr. Mitsuaki Tezuka discovered Yamato Hyakume Persimmon and started...

【Product name】 Agri Vegetable Ei Green Pepper (K-GAP) 【Type】 Capsicum annuum L. ‘Grossum’ group 【Production area/jurisdiction】 Eicho, Minamikyushu City, Kagoshima Prefecture (Ei District: Ei Pepper Specialty Department) Ibusuki City (Kaimon District, Yamakawa District, Ibusuki District) Kiire Town, Kagoshima City (Kiiri District) (JA Ibusuki, JA Kagoshima Prefectural Economic Federation) 【Origin of name】 Originaire du mot «piment», il est transmis du Portugal pendant la période Edo. The flower language of POVIRON is “blessing of the sea, profit of the sea.” 【Major features】 In the southern part of Minamikyushu City, the Japanese white radish for Japanese pickles, which is a specialty of Minamikyushu, reaches the sun drying season every year. Ei, Kagoshima is a feature of the season; something characteristic of a particular season, when a cold wind blows on a hill overlooking Mt. Kaimondake. The turret, which is made of bamboo in a triangular shape, looks white in the soft sunlight. Wor...