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The first shipment of new sunflower rice (sake rice and glutinous rice) from the 2024 harvest! This new rice is grown with love in the great town of Hokuryu!

Monday, September 9, 2024

On Friday, September 6th, the first shipment of new sunflower rice (sake rice and glutinous rice) from the 2024 harvest was made at the JA Kitasorachi Kitaryū Branch (Branch Manager: Washio Kimitoshi).

First shipment of new sunflower rice (sake rice and glutinous rice) from the 2024 harvest

JA Kitasorachi Hokuryu Branch Agricultural Product Collection and Shipping Facility
JA Kitasorachi Hokuryu Branch Agricultural Product Collection and Shipping Facility

Three farmers, Yasunori Watanabe (brewery rice, Suisei), Keiji Fujii (sticky rice, Hakuryo Mochi), and Fujii Farm Co., Ltd. (sticky rice, Hakuryo Mochi), delivered their new rice to the agricultural product collection and shipping facility.

First shipment of sake rice "Suisei" and glutinous rice "Hakucho Mochi"
First shipment of sake rice "Suisei" and glutinous rice "Hakucho Mochi"

This year, the first shipment was made two days earlier than last year, and with sufficient rainfall, growth is going well and a bumper crop is expected, with a harvest that is above average.

However, this year's ears are slightly taller, and there has been some damage from them being knocked over by rain and wind.

Due to the nationwide rice shortage, it seems that it is difficult to set the price of new rice.

A rookie radiating energy
A rookie radiating energy

Commemorative photo

JA Kitasorachi's Nagai Minoru, Representative Director of the Ryu District, Hokuryu Town's Okuda Masaaki, Deputy Mayor, Watanabe Yasunori (sake rice), Fujii Keiji (glutinous rice), JA Kitasorachi's Iwata Kiyomasa, Representative Director and Union President, and Matsuda Naoto, Representative Director of the Kazumi District

JA Kitasorachi's Nagai Minoru, Hokuryu District Representative Director, Hokuryu Town's Okuda Masaaki, Hokuryu Town Vice Mayor, Watanabe Yasunori (sake rice), Fujii Keiji (glutinous rice), JA Kitasorachi's Iwata Kiyomasa, Representative Director and Union President, and Matsuda Naoto, Representative Director and Union President of the same organization.
From left: JA Kitasorachi's Nagai Minoru, Hokuryu District Representative Director; Hokuryu Town's Okuda Masaaki, Deputy Mayor; Watanabe Yasunori (sake rice); Fujii Keiji (glutinous rice); JA Kitasorachi's Iwata Kiyomasa, Representative Director and Union President; and Matsuda Naoto, Representative Director and Union President of the same organization.

Clear autumn sky

In the clear autumn sky, Tenryu clouds dance high into the sky as if celebrating a bountiful harvest of golden rice ears!

Tenryu clouds dancing in the clear autumn sky
Tenryu clouds dancing in the clear autumn sky

With boundless love, gratitude, and prayers, we offer this wonderful new rice variety, "Sunflower Rice," from Hokuryu Town, which has been blessed with the great blessings of nature, grown with all our might and love, as if fulfilling a divine mission...

With gratitude for the bountiful golden ears of rice...
With gratitude for the bountiful golden ears of rice...

Other photos

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◇ Interview and text: Ikuko Terauchi (Photography and editing assistance: Noboru Terauchi)

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