First arrive of “Unshu-Mikan” in “Ma-ana” area was in the 33 year of the Meiji-era (1900).。
People started growing officially around the 40 year of the Meiji-era (around 1907).
Nowadays about 200 farm families produce 9,000 to 10,000 tons of “Mikan” a year, and trusted as one of the best “Mikan” production areas, especially dealt with high price at metropolitan market.
Each producer cooperates together to manage the growth by technical arrangement and help each other to ship goods so that they are successful to improve the quality and keep high standard.
KIHIN Highest-Rank controlled by cutting-edge equipments is dispatched to you after final checking both outlook and taste to pass the strict criteria by precision machine with a cutting-edge optical sensor, in addition identified the quality by producers.
It is not easy to produce “Ma-ana Mikan”. It is not positive to save work by mechanized farming because of the steep terraced farms along hillsides.
Most working processes are not mechanized. That’s why traditional skills have to be exactly taken over cross from one generation to another.
This area can give us “real heartfelt skills” grown up only with this severe environment.
“Ma-ana Mikan” is strictly managed from producing stage to shipping stage by the Cooperative Distribution Center.
The first priority of Ma-ana Cooperative Distribution Center is keeping high quality and stable producing, and we continue our efforts as pioneer of citrus fruit production.
The agricultural industry in Japan faces to severe environment at the moment.
We try to find out some new approaches for next generation, and hope it will contribute to a reconstruction of agricultural industry in Japan.
We take care of all environmental issues around us and keep going on by focusing on “the thing the best production area must do” rather than “the only thing the best production area can do”.
We believe unlimited possibilities of future agriculture, and ship to you “Tasty Ma-ana Mikan” by continuing utmost efforts.
Enjoy our “Ma-ana Mikan”.
JA Nishiuwa Maana Cooperative Distribution Center
Representative Shigetaka Yamada
