In addition to aging veteran workers with fruit sorting technology, it is difficult to secure general workers due to the effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic, so the operation of the fruit sorting plant seems to be in a somewhat difficult situation, but robots, AI, We have succeeded in a smart agriculture demonstration project that utilizes advanced technologies such as IoT as a business that accelerates social implementation. Workers have great expectations and dreams.

奈良の柿, 平核無柿

【種類】

Diospyros kaki

【生産地】

奈良県五條市西吉野町（にしよしの出荷組合）

【名前の由来】

Around 1887, persimmon saplings bought from a merchant in Echigo were cultivated in the Shonai region of Yamagata prefecture by the former Tsuruoka feudal lords, but it seems that they were named after their excellence in 1909.

【主な特徴】

In early July 2022, shipments of “Wase Tone Persimmons” cultivated in agricultural greenhouses have begun in Gojo City, Nara Prefecture, one of Japan’s leading persimmon production areas. The city produces about 22,000 tons of persimmons annually, and is widely known as one of the leading production areas in Japan. In addition, at the sorting plant in Nishiyoshino Town in the city, shipping of this excellent seedless agricultural product has started from the end of last month. Persimmons of good color and shape are sorted by optical sensors, and the workers carefully pack them into boxes one by one. However, in this leading production area, there was a lot of sunshine from early spring, so the persimmons grew with sufficient sweetness. It is expected to decrease. Former Nishiyoshino Village: A village in Yoshino District, Midwestern Nara Prefecture. At the northern end of the Kii Mountains, in the upper reaches of the Niukawa, a tributary of the Yoshino River, the village area was divided into a southern part consisting of 1000 m-class mountains and a northern part consisting of hills of 300-400 m. Fruit trees are cultivated on the gentle slopes of the north, and Fuyu persimmons are especially famous. The forestry area spreads over the mountains in the south, and in recent years the production of brushed logs has been active. There is Yoshino No. 1 power plant in the village, and Anou was a base in the Southern Court during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and was widely known as a famous spot for plum blossoms. On September 25, 2005, it was incorporated into Gojo City together with Oto Village, Yoshino District, and was abolished. Gojo City is located in the southwestern part of Nara Prefecture, bordering Gose City and Osaka Prefecture in the north, Nosegawa Village and Wakayama Prefecture in the west, and Yoshino District in the south and east. The northern part of the city is designated as Kongo Ikoma Kisen National Park, and the eastern part is designated as Yoshino Kumano National Park. In addition, many valuable historical resources such as Eisan-ji Temple（It is a temple of the Shingon sect Toyoyama school and was built in 719 by Fujiwara no Muchimaro）, shrines and temples such as Anou Imperial Palace Ruins and Otomiya Ruins, Buddhist temples, and ancient tombs are distributed. In the city, the “Kishu Kaido” that connects to Wakayama, the “Kawachi Kaido” that connects to Osaka, the “Shimo Highway” that connects to Nara City, the “Nishi Kumano Highway” that runs through the area from north to south, and even water transportation was once popular. There is the Yoshino River, etc., and it has nurtured the traffic of many people and cultures since ancient times as a transportation hub. Among them, the old townscape still remains in the new town on the old Kishu Kaido, which conveys the remnants of those days. The northern region is relatively warm and has a light rainfall, while the southern region where Oto Village is located has a high altitude, so it is cool and has a lot of rainfall in the summer, and it is cold and snowy in the winter. Agriculture: Rice, fruit trees, vegetables, livestock, flowering trees, etc. are flourishing, and the state-owned comprehensive agricultural land development project has formed a major production area for persimmons, making it the city’s largest production area in Japan, including existing orchards. I’m proud. In the livestock industry, it boasts one of the highest number of breeding feathers in Nara prefecture. In the forestry industry, the environment surrounding the city’s forestry industry is becoming more difficult year by year due to problems such as sluggish timber prices, aging workers, and a shortage of successors, in addition to the small amount of forestry management in the city. As for vegetables, eggplant, cucumber and tomato are the leading producers in the prefecture. Aiming to be a leader in agriculture in a new era: Agriculture is an industry that supports people’s food. In April of 3rd year of Reiwa, Gojo City Nishiyoshino Agricultural High School opened. As a municipal school that inherits the efforts of its predecessor, Gojo City Nara Prefectural Gojo High School Anou Branch School, and has a four-year daytime period of study, with an agricultural department. We have taken a new step. Taking advantage of being a small school and a part-time course, it seems that from the high school stage, you will develop the ability to directly connect to work by practicing at local farmers and agricultural corporations and experiencing employment. After graduating, regardless of whether they remain in Gojo City or return to their hometown, they want their primary goal to be employment at an agricultural corporation. For those who remain in the city and get a job at an agricultural corporation, depending on the efforts and motivation of everyone after employment, it is possible to become independent by renting land, etc. Support is provided in collaboration with private business establishments. The predecessor, Anou Branch School, was established in 1950 by Anou Village, Yoshino District, to foster local agricultural successors and guarantee opportunities for high school education, and has a history of 70 years. The Gojo City Board of Education has decided to make the Anou branch school independent as a municipal agricultural high school in order to surely fulfill the purpose of fostering leaders of regional agriculture from the beginning, and with the approval of the prefectural board of education, the luck of opening the school recently. It became a mess. People began to live in the area around Gojo City, Nara Prefecture from the Jomon period about 6500 years ago, and at the end of the 4th century, technologies such as ironware production and ceramics, which are considered to be cultural routes that permeated from the Kishu area, became established and were at the cutting edge of the time. It is inferred from cultural properties that he had the technology. From the Nara period to the early modern period, the end of the Edo period was reached through the system of land subdivision in ancient Japan, glebe, demesne, shogunate control, etc. This area is known for Sakurai-ji Temple（Jodo sect: An ancient temple that is said to have been built by Yasunari Sakurai during the Tenryaku era (947-957). The Tenchugumi was named Gojo Temporary Government with Sakuraiji as its headquarters. There is a mound of Hanshichi, Sankatsu of colorful figure Woman Dance clothing of ballad drama.）, where the headquarters was set up after Tenchugumi（During the turbulent period at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the imperial court began to emerge on the front stage of politics, and the authority of the shogunate was gradually lost. Among them, at the court noble, the scholars united around Tadamitsu Nakayama of chamberlain, and a group was established with the aim of building a country centered on the emperor. It was formed by about 40 people. In 1863, following the apology of Emperor Komei’s Imperial visit Yamato, Tenchugumi decided to join Yamato first to settle the shogunate territory and welcome an Imperial visit. Therefore, he attacked the Gojo magistrate’s office in Yamato Province (decapitated five people including Edo-period prefectural governor (magistrate, bailiff) Gennai Suzuki) and established the “Gojo Government”. The reason why Tenchugumi was later described as the “Meiji Restoration” was that he overthrew the local agency of the Shogunate and established a new government. However, a coup d’etat occurred in the imperial court just before the Imperial visit, and the Imperial visit was canceled, and the Tenchugumi was put on the side of being subdued by the imperial court and the shogunate as a rebel. Tenchugumi continued to be defeated and reached a spectacular end in what is now Higashiyoshino Village, Nara Prefecture.）, the forerunner of the Meiji Restoration, attacked the Gojo magistrate’s office. Shimoichi Town has been strongly influenced by Buddhist culture and Shugendo culture, such as opening the way to Omine Shugendo and increasing the belief in Mt. Kinpu, Yoshino. In addition, as the name suggests, the market stands every five days, and there is a record that merchants from Osaka, Sakai, and Wakayama once gathered and traded Japanese millet, millet, rapeseed, sesame seeds, cigarettes, medicinal herbs, Tansei paper, and Yoshino lacquer. Nishiyoshino Village (currently Gojo City, the same applies hereinafter) is where the affairs of the Southern Court were carried out during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. “Hirataneshi Persimmon” : In the Shonai region of Yamagata prefecture, a farmer in Tsuruoka Town（In 1885, now; when Mr. Shigemitsu Suzuki of Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture purchased several kinds of seedlings from a merchant in Niigata and planted them, it is said that only one seedless persimmon was produced. It is said that a kind of seedless persimmon made in Niigata was mixed. “Choryo SAKAI” old man, who sensed the future of a mysterious seedless persimmon tree, cultivated seedlings and worked hard to popularize them, which produced the fruit (Shonai persimmon) that represents autumn in Shonai today. “Shonai persimmon” is not a carbon dioxide gas deastringency, but an old-fashioned manufacturing method “shonai deastringency” that emphasizes sweetness, and each one is carefully deastringent. It features a smooth texture and a rich, natural sweetness.）, Yamagata Prefecture, cultivated a mixture of saplings that could not be seeded originally among the saplings purchased from a sapling dealer in Niigata Prefecture. It is said that it spread as. Now, the log of “Shonai persimmon” (Hiratanenashi persimmon) was found in the residence of Eisaburo Kawazu of Akiha Ward (former Niitsu city) in Niigata city, Niigata prefecture, and in 1962, “Hacchin persimmon” It is designated as a cultural property（In 1931, Koda’s Kawasaki family’s persimmon tree is recognized as a log because it is a seedling that does not depend on grafting. It is a large tree with a height of 16 meters, a trunk circumference of 2 m, and a branching area of 2 al. It is said that it bears many fruits every year even though it is an old tree estimated to be about 300 years old. As the name suggests, this persimmon is characterized by its seedlessness, and is said to be the sweetest of all the persimmons because it has a lot of juice and soft meat. Sado started producing this Hacchin; Eight delicacies persimmon as a product and shipped it to Hokkaido for the first time in 1936. Currently, it is cultivated mainly in Sado as the “Okesagaki persimmon” brand in the prefecture, and in Niigata city, Akiha Ward and Nishikan Ward are the production areas.）of Niigata Prefecture as a log of. “Hacchingaki persimmon” is called “Echigo seven wonders”, which is a collection of seven rare things that are handed down in Echigo (present-day Niigata prefecture), and means that the rare persimmon without seeds is the next eight rare. It is the name given by. It is called “Hacchin” in Niigata, “Shonaigaki persimmon” in Yamagata, and “Okesa persimmon” in Sado. It is widely known as a seedless variety that is juicy, soft, and has a strong sweetness.