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Minabe-Tanabe Ume System GIAHS Project Action Plan

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)

Year of publication 2015

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 27 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Annexes

Language English

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    As both food and medicine, ume [Prunus mume, Japanese apricot] have been a highly valued crop in Japan from about 1300 years ago. Pickled ume, called umeboshi, keep well and have excellent medicinal effects including food poisoning prevention and recovery from fatigue, and have been consumed on a daily basis as a Japanese side dish. The Minabe-Tanabe ume system is a unique system which has sustainably produced high-quality ume by making use of slopes with rudaceous soil, which is poor in nutrien ts. The production of ume in this region comes to about 44,000 t annually (2012), accounting for about 50% of Japan’s total production. Yield per unit area is high, at about 1.5 t per 10 a, which is about twice that of Japan’s other ume-producing districts.
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    Actual presence of traditional agricultural knowledge includes terraces, ridges fields, local irrigation systems and traditional agricultural tools, crops and livestock spread at different altitudes that goes from mesothermic areas at 2400 m. altitude called “Quechua” agroecological zone, with maize as the main crop, to the coldest environment used for the marginal cultivation of a great number of native crops and varieties including frost resistant crops as quinua, kañiwa and high altitude tubers (Table 1). Mostly native livestock is grazing the native pastures with llamas and alpacas at high altitudes over 4,300 m, in the so called “Puna” agroecological zone.
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