To Support food supply and living
In this sloping field, buckwheat is extensively cultivated. After harvest, most of it is processed into buckwheat rice, a local delicacy, that helps preserve the region’s traditional food culture.
To protect traditions and nature
In this field, the slope could reach 40 °. The “Tsuchi age” process, which uses Salae unique to the area, is routinely used to restore the soil lost due to erosion. This site also serves as a learning ground for SDGs education, both locally and beyond.
Culture associated with the local environment
This village is the only place, where traditional local agricultural festival Oinokosan is still observed.
Landscape in harmony with people and environment
The view from this sloping field, possibly the largest in the Nishi-Awa region, showcases the unique harmony between people and the natural environment.
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Haruki Nishiokada and Setsuko Nishiokada｜The People Supporting Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System
Haruki Nishiokada and Setsuko Nishiokada (Tsurugi Town) Mr. and Mrs. Nishiokada's farm in Sadamitsu Sarukai in Tsurugi is a symbolic place for Nishi Awa's steep-slope farming. They grow kidney beans in summer and buckwheat in fall. It is also a famous tourist farm because of the beauty of the valley at the bottom of its steep slopes and the surrounding mountains. They value local agricultural culture as much as cultivation. That is the traditional event "Oinokosan."Oinokosan" is a traditional event held on the first day of the boar in October of the lunar calendar as a prayer for plentiful harvests and family safety. There has long been a tradition of […]
