In Obanazawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, which is known as a soba restaurant, local soba shops and other organizations have begun new efforts to improve the quality of their specialty products.
Obanazawa City is known as one of the leading soba restaurants in Yamagata Prefecture, and is visited by many people from inside and outside the prefecture.
According to the group "Okunohosodo Obanazawa Soba Kaido" that makes soba shops in the city, soba is easily crossed with other plants in the process of growing, and in recent years, the phenomenon that the color of the seeds has faded has been observed. about it.
There is no problem with the taste and quality, but the group has started to grow buckwheat from unbred seeds in order to make more delicious buckwheat.
On the 23rd, a group official planted about 2 kg of dark-colored seeds of the "Most Early" variety, which had been selected in advance, in an agricultural house built so as not to cross with other plants. ..
According to the group, new seeds can be harvested from the buckwheat flowers that were sown this time at the end of October, but the amount is not enough for food.
In the future, increasing the seed in the field of Obanazawa city of ranch and farm, to prospect the four years later, we want to harvest only the seed can be provided in buckwheat shop.