Institute for Rural Engineering, NARO

In our group, we address the hydraulic issues and facility control issues faced by the agricultural water facilities. Agricultural water facilities include water sources such as dams and head works, open channels and pipelines from large to small water distribution systems, and associated facilities for diversion, flow regulation, pressure regulation, and temporary storage, as well as facilities for draining from farmland to rivers and coastal facilities for protecting farmland from tsunamis and storm surges.
Since FY 2021, the mission has been to build a real-time water management system that avoids flood and drought damage based on weather, agricultural management, and other forecast information, and to verify technologies for reducing flood and drought damage and stabilizing production by strengthening agricultural production infrastructure. In recent years, heavy rain disasters have occurred almost every year, which does not mean that the risk of drought has decreased. In order to protect the land, people, including farmland and farmers, and stable agricultural production, it is necessary to develop technology to avoid the damage as much as possible from unavoidable floods and droughts.
In addition to carrying out its mission, our group will provide technical support to field engineers and government agencies who develop and manage agricultural water facilities through field surveys, hydraulic experiments, numerical simulations, and ICT technology development.