NARO Research Prize 2016

The NARO Research Prize is awarded annually to outstanding research achievements with high social, economic and academic impacts from among the major researches of the previous year, in order to raise motivation of the research staff and facilitate the revitalization of various research initiatives at NARO. For FY2016, six researches have been selected and the awarding ceremony was held on September 28, 2016.

Awardees

1. Multi-stage subsurface flow constructed wetland systems for organic wastewater treatment with stable performance for long term including winter season (Research Paper)

Kunihiko KATO (Division of Agro-Environment Research, Tohoku Agricultural Research Center)

2. Stable production of enormous amounts of red meat by sustainable grazing fattening technology

Ryoji KOBAYASHI (Operations Unit 1, Technical Support Center, Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center)
Yoshinori NAKAMURA (Division of Livestock and Grassland Research Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center)
Makoto KANEKO (Division of Livestock and Grassland Research Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center)
Akihisa YAMADA (Division of Livestock and Forage Research, Tohoku Agricultural Research Center)

3. Gender selection technique using elongated bovine embryo that can be implemented at site

Shuichi MATSUYAMA (Division of Animal Feeding and Management Research, Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science)

4. Unmanned survey robot for inspecting agricultural irrigation canal tunnels

Mitsuhiro MORI (Division of Facilities and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute for Rural Engineering)
Masaru TOKASHIKI (Department of Planning and General Administration, Institute for Rural Engineering)
Tetsuo NAKAYA (Division of Hydraulic Engineering, Institute for Rural Engineering)

5.Development of adhesive bandage type artificial skin using atelocollagen vitrigel membrane for tissue regeneration (Research Paper)

Toshiaki TAKEZAWA (Division of Biotechnology, Institute of Agrobiological Sciences)

6. Development of 1 km mesh agricultural weather data provision system

Hiroyuki OHNO (Division of Climate Change, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences)
Kaori SASAKI (Division of Climate Change, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences)

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