豆の力やオープン！！イモリ谷アンテナショップともに大盛況！！

７／２３イモリ谷生産物販売部の初出荷式がにぎやかに行われました。
高田町長他、役場、県関係者の来賓も来ていただき、地元の生産者、年寄り、
子供達も大勢集まりました。

お店は開店前よりお客さんでごった返し、怒って帰る人もいて嬉しい悲鳴でした。
お豆腐も製造が追いつかなくて、夕方４時には売り切れでした。
イモリ谷産品もほぼ完売で売り上げはなんと１１万円を超える金額でした。びっくり！！
豆腐関係はその数倍で、なおびっくり！！長く続けば文句なしですが・・・・・さて？？？

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    Special  Announcement  [臨時増刊]       ( 7 / 24  ’02 )
 

1: A large crowd welcomed the opening of Mameno Chikaraya and the antenna shop of Imoridani

 The ceremony for the first shipment was attended on 23rd by such guests as Town Mayor Mr. Takada , and town and prefectural officials concerned. A lot of farmers, aged people and children saw us off.

 The store overflowed with people far before it was opened. A few of them, we learned later, ran so short of patience that they left without entering it.

Every tofu was sold out around 4 in the afternoon, and the vegetables and other articles from Imoridani were also all gone out. The proceeds ran over 110,000 yen. We hope this much popularity will continue.

2: The store introduced in the July 23rd evening edition of Oita Godou Shinbun with the caption of “Tofu with flavour enjoyed in the old days.”

 Here’s a gist.

 A tofu specialty store has been opened today. Tofu there is made of soybean milled with a stone and they use the soybean produced in Matumoto, Ajimu Town.

The store will help serve dual purposes; offering safe and tasty tofu to consumers and encouraging the farmers who have switched over from growing rice to soybean. Mr. Kenichi Shoji, owner of the store, had long wanted to find a way to let a tofu seller and soybean growers thrive together. He says the answer is to open a tofu store of this kind.

In Matumoto area 50 houses grow soybean and harvested 23 tons last year. The soybean there is very sweet and full of flavour.

 The manager of the store is Mr. Shigeru Nakatsuru, who is from Oita City and a new farmer settled in the area. He brings fresh vegetables of the area to the store every morning. He hopes for communication and interchange to begin between consumers and farmers.