date:Aug 21, 2019
AS/Tokyo forecasts that this year-on-year reduction trend will continue in MY 2019/20, cutting an additional ten hectares in planted and harvested areas.
The prefecture with the largest production of fresh cherries is Yamagata, located 250 miles north of Tokyo, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of domestic fresh cherry production. Yamagata has high temperature fluctuations between day and night, providing ideal growing conditions for sweet cherries. Yamanashi prefecture, the second largest p