"Come, please eat as much as you can, and you're welcome!"

"Ah...... Thank you, Mr. Inose!"

“……”

After the sky gradually darkened, Tomomi and Seiichi, who were staying at Inose's house, took the opportunity to continue the meal and learned something about Maruyama Village from the villagers here. Before coming here, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries had planned to revitalize this historic mountain village by introducing specialty agriculture and tourism, but now, there are only five families left in Maruyama Village, let alone revitalized it, and it remains to be seen whether the village can be saved.

"Alas...... Most of the fields have been deserted, and we people would like to expand the existing planting area, but we ...... Because I'm old, even if I have the heart, I don't have that energy!"

Hearing Mr. Inose's words full of emotion, Seiichi Hasa couldn't help but feel a little sad. Since he joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, he has been working at the Rural Revitalization Bureau. Over the years, he has also visited many places like Maruyama Village. Almost all of these villages are facing the grim fact that there is a serious loss of population. For most young people, it seems more rational to make a career in a big city like Tokyo than to work as a farmer in their hometown, and it is for this reason that many historic villages are slowly beginning to decline, and some even become ghost villages with no residents at all.

"Mr. Inose, everyone...... Do you have any plans for the future?"

"Alas...... In a few years, everyone should choose to live in a nursing home or go to their relatives in a big city...... There is no hope at all. I remember when I was young, the family in the middle of the village was in the brewing business, and at that time, not only the people of Maruyama Village sold their own rice to them, but even the nearby villages would bring grain here. At that time, there were several inns in the village alone. Later, the family moved the brewery to Tokyo, and from then on, Maruyama Village slowly fell into disrepair...... Step by step, we have come to this point today......"

"What a pity, Mr. Maruyama!"

Maybe it's because the topic is a little heavy.,Jimi unconsciously sweated again.。 She was seen constantly wiping the sweat from her forehead and face with a towel. Mr. Inose smiled and said:

"I'm sorry! It's so humid here in the summer, even if you sit there and don't move, you can't stop sweating, that ...... I'm going to help you get the stove up!"

"Ah...... Thanks, Mr. Inose!"

After seeing Mr. Inose get up and leave, Seiichi Hasa and Tomomi couldn't help but glance at each other, and then said with a serious expression:

"Senior, it seems...... The plan to revive Maruyama Village is about to be abandoned. Over here...... There was no need for any investment! Even the villagers had moved away, although we didn't know about it before, but ...... Now it seems that the abandoned village is an inevitable thing!"

"Chimi, about this...... I don't think it's necessary to jump to conclusions so early. The village is so close to Tokyo and ...... The surroundings are so beautiful...... I think...... There should be people who like it here!"

"Huh...... Senior!"

"To tell you the truth, I have a friend who is planning to open a coffee plantation near Tokyo. Since the coffee trees are cultivated using greenhouse cultivation technology, the location is not really important. But...... It's so humid, I think this might be the right place to be. ”

"Huh...... Can you grow coffee trees here in Tokyo?

"If it's in natural conditions, nature can't, but ...... If we had used greenhouse cultivation technology, I think there would have been no problem. But...... This is just some of my personal opinions, and I still have to ask the other party's opinion for the specific situation!"

“……”

After dinner, Seiichi Hasa sent the situation to the members of the study group, including Sakurako, through LINE, and soon everyone started a wave of heated discussions about the photos that Hasa Seiichi had taken during the day.

"It's ......"

"It's Maruyama Village on the outskirts of Tokyo, a village with a long history that is about to disappear, and I think ...... It is a good place to be a plantation in Sakura-no-Sato. ”

"It's so beautiful, if you can run a guesthouse here, there will be a lot of people who like it here! This place suddenly reminds me of the farm in my hometown, by the way, if you have the chance, I'll invite everyone to eat Matsusaka beef when Sakura-chan comes back!"

With a heated discussion among everyone, Sakurako couldn't help but notice the photo sent by Seiichi Hasawa. Then she asked Yu Zuo Seiichi curiously:

"Excuse me...... How much does it cost to run a greenhouse farm here?"

Seeing Sakurako's question, Hasa Seiichi couldn't help but take out his mobile phone with some hesitation, and then calculated the investment needed to build a coffee plantation here.

"If you take into account the cost of land, the investment for a greenhouse cultivation greenhouse is about 30 million yen, and in addition, because there is a lack of labor here, the harvesting and daily maintenance need to be carried out by machines. If you add in some necessary labor costs, it will cost about 50 million yen just before the coffee falls!"

"50 million yen?"

"I didn't expect it to cost so much money to run a plantation!"

"That's because in Japan, if it's in Ethiopia, it's much cheaper!"

……

Seeing that everyone was chatting hotly on LINE, but Sakurako stopped talking, Lin Xiuyi took the initiative to send a private message to Sakurako:

"I have some savings in hand if I need help! By the way, is the acquisition of land in Ethiopia going well?"

Seeing this message sent by Lin Xiuyi on his mobile phone, as well as the message that Miko and Akemi quietly sent her, Sakurako couldn't help but feel a little moved. But...... Sakurako, who has always been accustomed to running safely, is not used to the current business strategy of relying on borrowing to expand. And...... She didn't want her friends to take the risk on her, either. ”

"Thank you for your kindness, the matter on the Ethiopian side has begun to enter the formal acquisition process, although the capital is not abundant, but I should be able to cope with it in the short term. ”

Sakurako finished sending the message, then picked out some photos from her phone that she had left in Bench-Maji. At this moment, it is the time of coffee harvest, and it is extremely novel to see the local women putting the harvested coffee cherries in a frame and putting them on their heads.

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