A grape variety called Shine Muscat is helping to change perceptions that farming isn’t lucrative, say officials in Yamanashi Prefecture. That may explain a surge in new mostly young farmers to ...

So, for some varietals (typically those with smaller fruit, like Muscat grapes ... machines de-stem the grapes and leave ...

The municipal government had been sending Shine Muscat grapes produced in Yamagata Prefecture as thank-you gifts for donations to its “furusato nozei” hometown tax program. Nihon Gourmet ...