In Amakusa City, Kumamoto Prefecture, a harvest festival was held to pray for the safety of the work before the harvest of greenhouse-grown dekopon, which is popular as a gift, began.
In the jurisdiction of JA Hondo Itsuwa in Amakusa City, Kumamoto Prefecture, 16 farmers are working on "heated greenhouse cultivation" of Dekopon so that they can be sold as gifts such as year-end gifts from the beginning of next month.
On the 15th, before the harvest that starts next week, about 50 people gathered at a farm in Shigaki-cho, Amakusa City to hold the "Dekopon Harvest Festival."
After the ritual, producers and people from JA used scissors to pluck the heavily ripened Dekopon, wishing for safe harvesting and high prices.
Although the temperature in the summer was high this year, as a result of meticulous management, it is said that the decopon is finished with good quality.
Kimito Sato, head of the decopon department at JA Hondo Itsuwa Facility, said, "Farmers are having a tough time due to soaring crude oil prices and rising fertilizer prices, but we are producing with the desire that many people can eat deliciously." was talking
Dekopon are mainly shipped to Kanto, Tohoku, Kansai, etc. for gifts.