I went to Kakiuchi Farm in MihamaTown where you can grow mandarin oranges all year round!

"Kakiuchi Farm Mikan Juice 720ml 3 bottles"

100% straight mandarin orange juice. A 100% straight juice made from tree-ripened mandarin oranges. Straight juice with high sugar content and not sour, easy to drink for everyone from children to the elderly.

We want to deliver the deliciousness of freshly picked mandarin oranges from the field.

MihamaTown, where Kakiuchi Farm is located, is a scenic town located almost at the southern tip of Mie Prefecture and has a warm climate throughout the year. Kakiuchi Farm is located in MihamaTown and grows mandarin oranges on a vast land of approximately 13 hectares, which is approximately the size of three Tokyo Domes.
Farming is hard work, with hot summer days, cold winter days, typhoons, and heavy rain days. However, what is important is how to get along well with nature. The staff at Kakiuchi Farm always work hard with the mandarin oranges until the day of harvest!

Kakiuchi Farm's mandarin oranges are freshly picked and ripened on the tree.

A major feature of Kakiuchi Farm is that it ships ``tree-ripe'' mandarin oranges.
Normally, mandarin oranges are harvested and shipped before they are fully ripe. Did you know?
Mid-late oranges such as Amanatsu are harvested in mid-January, stored in storage, and shipped from March to May. Therefore, we don't know when the mandarin oranges you see in stores were harvested.
At Kakiuchi Farm, mandarin oranges are not harvested before they are ripe, but each mandarin orange that ripens on the tree is judged to be ripe (just ripe) and harvested.

Although it takes a lot of time and effort, we are particular about producing mandarin oranges that are ripe on the tree, even if it means risking it for the sake of the word "delicious" and the smile on our faces.

We deliver freshly harvested mandarin oranges both domestically and overseas.

Kakiuchi Farm has established an integrated system from production to sales. Tree-ripened mandarin oranges are sold to famous department stores, high-end food supermarkets, famous hotels, restaurants, tourist facilities in the prefecture, TV/radio shopping, and workplace sales of major listed companies.
In addition, they are actively expanding overseas, mainly in Southeast Asia. Kakiuchi Farm's ``mandarin orange juice'' is also used in JAL's in-flight meals.

Kakiuchi Farm's mandarin orange juice and mandarin processed products

At Kakiuchi Farm, we not only produce and sell fresh fruit, but also tangerine juice made from tree-ripened tangerines and processed tangerine products.
100% straight juice made by squeezing various types of mandarin oranges at their best. The straight juice comes in 2 sizes: 720ml and 200ml, the perfect size to drink all the juice without leaving anything behind.
There are many varieties, including Satsuma mandarin, pomelo, seminole, Kinari Amanatsu, Setoka, Kumano Deco, and Kara Mandari, Shiranui, and Amanatsu mandarin (Sunfruit)! With all this, you'll get lost.

Kakiuchi Farm President Kiyoaki Kakiuchi

Kiyoaki Kakiuchi, president of Kakiuchi Farm Co., Ltd., kindly responded to our interview.
President Kakiuchi is from MihamaTown, but he did not start out as a farmer. After graduating from school, he worked as an office worker at a listed company in Kyoto for about 10 years.
His parents' family was not as large a farm as it is today, and his father used to grow mandarin oranges as a part-time farmer while working for a company. President Kakiuchi's turning point came about 20 years ago. After my father passed away, I made a U-turn to my hometown MihamaTown. That was the beginning of today's Kakiuchi Farm.

Developing the next generation of farmers

Currently, we are trying to get many people to know about MihamaTown, come visit us, and become fans of Mihama through mandarin oranges. That is President Kakiuchi's idea. We want to make MihamaTown a place where everyone in the community can benefit, and we are putting effort into regional revitalization activities.
MihamaTown is becoming a depopulated area as its population decreases every year, but the town actively accepts internships from local universities such as Mie University, Kogakukan University, and Kinki University, and is training future agricultural workers. He said he wants to establish agriculture as an industry and create an environment where many young people can live and work with satisfaction.
In the near future, his current goal is to develop luxurious sweets that are extremely delicious and cannot be found anywhere else. I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of wonderful sweets you'll make!

Kakiuchi Farm acquired ASIA GAP certification on February 17, 2020.

GAP certification is an initiative to realize sustainable agriculture, including food safety, environmental conservation, and labor safety. In order to produce safe agricultural products, it is a framework that manages not only quality but also the entire production process, and allows a third party to confirm and evaluate it.

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【basic information】

Kakiuchi Farm Co., Ltd.
936-6 Kamiichiki, Mihama-machi MihamaTown Mie Prefecture 519-5211
TEL 05979-3-0143
Private parking lot available

Official site https://www.kakiuchinouen.com/

*Information as of June 2020.