Peaches
✓Peaches have always grown best in warm climates, and the basin climate in the northern part of Fukushima deliver with hot, sunny summers, making them the perfect location for most of the prefecture’s peach groves. The peaches there come out incredibly sweet and delicious.
✓Unlike many Japanese peach growers, Fukushima farmers don’t bag the fruit when it’s on the tree, exposing it to full sunshine for a more beautiful color and richer sweetness.
✓Local cultivation techniques passed down for generations have led to increasingly larger, better-tasting fruit.
✓There are many carefully selected, delicious peach varieties produced, including the leading variety Akatsuki, allowing you to enjoy tasty peaches from summer through fall.
Hatsuhime
Fukuakari
Akatsuki
Madoka
Kawanakajima Hakuto
Yuzora
Deep-diving the delicious flavour of peaches grown in a prefecture renowned as a “Fruit Kingdom”
Akatsuki peaches, the pride of people of Fukushima
The year was 1952. The Akatsuki cultivar had just been born after a national research centre successfully hybridized Hakuto and Hakuho peaches. Starting in 1960, Fukushima and 11 other prefectures participated in a cultivation trial to determine the strain's adaptability. The peaches had excellent sugar content and pulp, but because they were so small, less than 200 grams each, the trials were discontinued after 11 years. However, Fukushima Prefecture, working together with a group of local farmers, continued experimenting on their own, eventually succeeding in making the peaches bigger through a process of trial and error. In 1979, the Akatsuki peach was finally registered as a brand. After 27 years since its development by the country and a trial cultivation period that lasted a remarkable 19 years, it finally came to light.
“Many types of peaches are covered in paper bags on the trees to protect them from pests and enhance their colour. However, Akatsuki is a variety that is often grown without bags. Peaches get sweeter the more sunshine they’re exposed to while they’re growing. This requires considerable effort in pest management, such as keeping the fields clean and daily monitoring of the fruit's growth. As a result, this variety can be quite challenging for farmers. But all of that hard work results in the incredibly sweet peaches we all get to enjoy each year.
Akatsuki peaches are ready to eat when they become fragrant and yield to gentle pressure. Enjoy the delicious Fukushima peaches that can be savoured over the long period from July to September!
Optical sensors pass only the finest peaches
The peaches are then examined by an optical sensor, which sorts them by sugar content, size, colour and other properties. They are then carefully placed in boxes and shipped out across the country.
The light of blessings and the joy of harvest overflowing in the orchards
The farm primarily grows peaches, along with apples, cherries, and other fruits. They also process and sell their harvest.
The reflective sheets they place under the trees to give the peaches a more beautiful colour create sparkles of light that dance around the trees, illuminating their leaves and fruit.
“The sun is the very source of natural energy”, says the affable and cheerful head of the farm, Kenichi Hishinuma. “Soaking the fruit in sunshine makes it as sweet as possible. It also makes the pulp smooth as silk and bursting with juice. The Akatsuki gives you the very best a peach has to offer”. He’s a seasoned veteran, having spent fifty years growing peaches. “The Akatsuki peaches grown in Koori, the next town over, are presented to the Imperial Household each year. Of course, Akatsuki is the most popular here as well”, he continues, happily talking about his favourite subject. “I hope you all think of Akatsuki peaches whenever summer rolls around and treat yourself to their incredible taste”.
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