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    Hinohikari

    ヒノヒカリ

    A short-grain cultivar bred in Miyazaki Prefecture from Koganebare × Koshihikari (1989). It is the main rice of Kyushu and is also grown in Kinki, Chūgoku and Shikoku; in 2016 it was Japan's third most planted rice.

    A pale polished rice grain, illustrated for Hinohikari.
    Hinohikari — editorial grain study, polished, not to scale. Appearance alone does not establish variety or protected origin.

    The sun of western Japan

    Hinohikari was bred at the Miyazaki Prefectural General Agricultural Experiment Station from a cross of Koganebare, a leading Aichi cultivar, as the seed parent and Koshihikari as the pollen parent. The name joins hi, the sun, standing for western Japan and Kyushu, with hikari, the shine of the freshly cooked rice.

    Hyogo Prefecture describes it as a good-eating rice that resists lodging, grown mainly in Kyushu and also in Kinki, Chūgoku and Shikoku. In 2016 it covered 9.1 % of Japan's paddy area.

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