Kumi Kaneko with a plate of Yamato Rouge red sweet corn which the company decided to develop about five years ago. - THE JAPAN NEWS/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
NARA (Japan Times/Asia News Network): Yamato Rouge, Japan’s first red sweet corn, has been produced by a seed and seedling manufacturer in Tenri, Nara Prefecture.
Yamato Noen Co. has been studying and developing crop seeds for more than 100 years and its new red sweet corn has been growing in farms nationwide starting this year.
