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▼ Premium Cherries Fetch Over ¥1 Mil In Year's 1st Auctions In Japan
- Category:Gourmet
Premium "Sato Nishiki" cherries from the northeastern Japan prefecture of Yamagata fetched record prices at the year's first auctions on Monday, including 1.8 million yen ($11,500) for a box at a Tokyo market, or more than 26,000 yen per cherry.
An auction in the city of Tendo in Yamagata, Japan's main cherry-producing prefecture, also sold a 68-cherry box for a record 1.55 million yen.
Cherries typically peak in early summer, but growers have advanced the harvest using "ultra-forced" cultivation, which chills trees to simulate winter before keeping them in greenhouses.
Kenichi Mannen, deputy sales manager at JA Tendo Foods, which won the top bid in Tendo, said, "I heard management was tough this year due to unstable weather, and we want to work hard to deliver products that make customers happy."
JA Tendo Foods plans to sell the cherries online.
An auction in the city of Tendo in Yamagata, Japan's main cherry-producing prefecture, also sold a 68-cherry box for a record 1.55 million yen.
Cherries typically peak in early summer, but growers have advanced the harvest using "ultra-forced" cultivation, which chills trees to simulate winter before keeping them in greenhouses.
Kenichi Mannen, deputy sales manager at JA Tendo Foods, which won the top bid in Tendo, said, "I heard management was tough this year due to unstable weather, and we want to work hard to deliver products that make customers happy."
JA Tendo Foods plans to sell the cherries online.
- 7/1 11:46
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