Editing Wakayama Prefecture (section)

== Agriculture ==

=== Orange ===
Wakayama Prefecture ranks first in the production of oranges in Japan. Wakayama has its own brand of oranges, which is produced in Arida District and called 'Arida-Orange'. Arida District, where oranges have been produced for more than 400 years,<ref>[http://www.pref.wakayama.lg.jp/prefg/070300/syokuiku1/tisantisyo/syun/mikan.html 今月の旬] Wakayama Prefecture website, accessed May 31, 2017</ref> yields about half of the orange crops in Wakayama today.<ref>[http://www.pref.wakayama.lg.jp/prefg/000200/photomuseum/139.html 農林水産　特産品] Wakayama Prefecture website, accessed May 31, 2017</ref> Furthermore, the yield of Arida-Oranges accounts for about 10 percent of Japanese domestic production of oranges.<ref>[http://www.ja-arida.or.jp/orange/mikan06.php 有田みかんについて]　JA Arida website, accessed May 31, 2017</ref>

=== Chinese flowering plum (Ume) ===
According to the survey by the [[Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)|Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries]] of Japan, Wakayama stands first in the production of [[Prunus mume|Chinese flowering plum]], or ''ume'' in Japanese, in Japan. As of 2016, Wakayama made up about 70 percent of Japanese domestic production of ''ume''.<ref>[http://www.maff.go.jp/j/tokei/kouhyou/sakumotu/sakkyou_kazyu/index.html 作況調査（果樹）：　農林水産省] The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries website, accessed June 1, 2017</ref>