Tohoku Agricultural Research Center, NARO

Farming Resumption Support Group

In order to ensure the safety of paddy rice and field crops produced in areas affected by the nuclear power plant accident, our group is building a system that enables the selection of risk-based transition reduction technologies, as well as technology that evaluates the risk of shifting from farmland soil where radioactive materials scattered by the accident have been deposited to crops for each region, field and crop. In areas where farming has been suspended for a long period of time, we are developing weed-control technologies such as labor-saving management technology using weeding robots that enable unmanned management. In addition, in response to the situation in the affected areas where farming has resumed, such as the dispersion of greenhouses managed by producers and the distance from residential areas, we are working on the development of labor-saving remote management technology that enables cultivation management from remote locations by utilizing AI crop growth diagnosis technology and information sharing systems through the formation of networks among producers. Furthermore, by developing labor-saving cultivation technology and management technology for highly profitable crops, we will support the high profitability of agricultural production corporations through the sixth industrialization as well as the production area.

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