In recent years, while the number of farmers has continued to decline and the workforce has aged, social interest in reducing environmental impact and achieving carbon neutrality has increased. As a result, there is a strong demand to establish sustainable agricultural technologies that balance productivity with environmental considerations.
In this department, we are advancing R&D that leverages advanced technologies with the aim of building an integrated operational technology framework that achieves both higher labor productivity and lower environmental impact. We will standardize vehicle motion-control technologies based on high-precision positioning information.
We will roll these technologies out as technology packages that can be implemented in a wide range of agricultural machines. We will also combine square-transplanting with mechanical inter-row and intra-row weeding to reduce labor requirements in organic paddy rice cultivation, and pursue carbon neutrality in the drying process by using rice husks as a heat source and effectively utilizing combustion ash. Furthermore, we will aim for practical implementation through the development of small electric agricultural machinery and advanced operational technologies.
