is a popular cultivar of
Japonica rice cultivated in
Japan
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as well as
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and the
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.
''Koshihikari'' was first created in 1956 by combining 2 different strains of ''Nourin No.1'' and ''Nourin No.22'' at the
Fukui Prefectural Agricultural Research Facility. It is one of the most highly grown varieties of rice in
Japan
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and is exported to other countries as a premium product.
Etymology
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for is used to represent the old
Koshi Province, which stretched from present-day
Fukui to
Yamagata. ''Koshihikari'' can be translated as "the light of Koshi".
Related varieties
Other rice varieties close to its strains, such as
Akitakomachi,
Hitomebore, and
Hinohikari were subsequently created by cross-breeding ''Koshihikari'' with other Japanese varieties of rice.
Characteristics
*Highly susceptible to
blast disease
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*Its stem collapses easily when mature
See also
*
Japanese rice
Japanese rice refers to a number of short-grain cultivars of Japonica rice including ordinary rice (''uruchimai'') and glutinous rice (''mochigome'').
Ordinary Japanese rice, or ''uruchimai'' ( 粳米), is the staple of the Japanese diet and co ...
References
External links
JA Uonuma Minami (Japanese) JA branch in South of Uonuma area in Japan
{{Varieties of rice
Agriculture in Japan
Flora of Japan
Japonica rice