5th Mid-term Plan

Research Segment I: Agri Food Business

  • Creating new industries related to food using AI and constructing smart food chains (NFRI)
  • Increasing production by implementing data-driven livestock farm management (NILGS)
  • Developing and practically applying diagnostic/control technology for livestock diseases and zoonotic diseases (NIAH)

Research Segment II: Smart Production System

  • Constructing a stable production system for high profits from agricultural and livestock products in cold regions using smart agricultural technologies (HARC/NARO)
  • Creating innovation for combined farm management through smart production systems (TARC/NARO)
  • Constructing smart production and distribution systems in suburban areas (CARC/NARO)
  • Constructing a multi-purpose farming system utilizing local resources in hilly and mountainous areas (WARC/NARO)
  • Increasing production of agricultural and livestock products and expanding exports from Kyushu region by fully utilizing farmland (KARC/NARO)
  • Promoting highly efficient and safe smart agriculture and international standardization (IAM/NARO)

Research Segment III: Agri-Bio System

  • Developing crop varieties to be competitive in industry by constructing a base system of smart breeding (NICS)
  • Increasing production and strengthening international competitiveness of fruit and tea trees by smart breeding and smart production technologies (NIFTS)
  • Strengthening industrial competitiveness of vegetables and flowers by smart breeding and smart production technologies (NIVFS)
  • Creating a novel Agri-Bio industry by developing technologies for advanced usage of biological functions of organisms (NIAS)

Research Segment IV: Robust Agricultural System

  • Achieving productivity improvement of agricultural crops and food products, while conserving the global environmental by developing a smart management system according to the production environment (NIAES)
  • Strengthening the production base by digitizing agricultural infrastructure (NIRE)
  • Stabilizing crop produc tion by developing data-driven technologies to control diseases, weeds and insect pests. (NIPP)

Core Technology Segment: Core Technology Research Headquarters

  • Utilizing AI/informatics, developing agricultural information research infrastructure, realizing cutting-edge ICT agriculture by WAGRI, and staff education and training (RCAIT/NARO)
  • Deploying cutting-edge technologies in robotics and information systems to all processes of smart food chains in agriculture and food industry (RCAR/NARO)
  • Promoting effective utilization of genetic resources of the Genebank by expanding the collection and improving the information infrastructure (NGRC)
  • Accelerating R&D by establishing an analysis platform with advanced high-precision analyzing equipment and by utilizing big data (NAAC)

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