Nice to meet you. This is Takahashi, the representative.
My hometown is the northern region of Saitama Prefecture, and the riverbed of the Tone River, which flows through the neighborhood, was a place that I had been familiar with since I was a child, and where I felt relieved and energized when I walked. When I was a student, I went home by bicycle while catching stag beetles on a summer day and talking with friends, and the scenery of the fields spreading out from the riverbed was connected to such many memories, and it was truly a place that became my starting point, a truly "original landscape".
However, after visiting the place for the first time in a long time, I realized that I was nostalgic at the same time.
"The number of abandoned farmland is increasing..."
At that moment, I felt a sense of loneliness, and at the same time, I decided that I wanted to work in agriculture in some way.
I quit the company I was working for at the time and participated in the establishment of "Agricultural Design Co., Ltd.", which "conducts hydroponic cultivation of melons in Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture".
I worked on agriculture there for two years, and although it was a short period of time, I was able to experience both the joys and the rigors of farming. In addition, I learned that there are agricultural products that are discarded that cannot be understood until they actually experience agriculture. I felt that if we could make processed products that make good use of these products and ensure profitability, we would be able to support agriculture from a different angle, so we established "Jobu Roots Co., Ltd." as a company that manufactures and sells processed products using agricultural products.