@article{oai:suzuka.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001453,
 author = {KUMARA, Ananda/ KUBO  Satsuki/ FUKUNAGA  Mineko},
 journal = {鈴鹿国際大学紀要Campana, Suzuka International University journal campana},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {Snakegourd is famous among the South and Southeast Asian countries for its medicinal and nutritional value and the low calorie content. However, although it has been growing in the Okinawa area since the Meiji era, the dishes prepared by using this vegetable are unpopular in Japan, which may be attributable to the lack of correct information. Snakegourd is not known as a vegetable to the people in general and, it has not being subjected to analysis in the books on food composition in Japan. This implies that the snakegourd is not beingtreated as a vegetable even among the food-professionals even though it is marginally used for cooking by a small minority of the people in this country.Suzuka International University (SIU) launched the"snakegourd project"to rectify this situtation and to introduce this crop as a new vegetable to Japan from the Suzuka City. SIU used the"Suzuka Consortium of theIndustry-University-Government Interaction" as the supporting network for implementing this project.Preliminary research findings of the project show that this vegetable can be grown successfully in this area and the dishes prepared by using snakegourd are quite acceptable for the Japanese taste. In addition, research activities by the project participants showed that this vegetable can also be grown in the form of a "greencurtain", which can be used for shading during the summer. Moreover, a vitalized region can be expected thanks to the increased participation of the people and organizations belonging to different social, economic and industrial categories for this project., 11, KJ00007773239, 研究論文, Research Paper},
 pages = {111--124},
 title = {Regional Vitalization through Global Interaction: Lessons from the Snakegourd (Ceylon Uri) Project in the Suzuka City},
 volume = {18},
 year = {2012}
}