Around 1988, farmers who had been growing the local variety of buckwheat and those who had been growing buckwheat in paddy fields during the off-season got together to begin consultation activities and a full-scale buckwheat farming consequently started to spread but the crop yields have been small.
1988年（昭和63年）頃、昔からあった在来種を栽培していた農家と、水田の裏作として栽培していた個々の農家が集まり協議会活動を開始、本格的な蕎麦栽培が広がり始めたが収穫量は少ない。