Japan

Japan’s Farmland Policy for Photovoltaic Power Generation

Yoshihisa Godo
ABSTRACT In 2012, the Japanese government launched a new program, under which those who generate electric power from natural energy sources, such as sunlight, are given the privilege to sell it to major electric power companies at favorable prices fixed by the government. This program, known as...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural science policies
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Agricultural Data Collaboration Platform: WAGRI-System Structure and Operation

Takeshi Saito, Atsushi Shinjyo, Mitsuhiro Wada, Mitsunori Ishihara, Shigehiko Hayashi, Takehiro Shiomi
ABSTRACT The National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) established the Research Center for Agricultural Information Technology in October 2018 to lead data-driven agriculture. The research center’s missions are agricultural AI study, the operation of agricultural data...
Country: Japan Topic: Smart agriculture
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Japan’s New Policy on Foreign Laborers and its Impact on the Agricultural Industry

Yoshihisa Godo
ABSTRACT In Japan, heated debates take place on whether and how the country should accept unskilled foreign laborers. The Japanese government’s long-held principle that these laborers should not be allowed to work in Japan reflects citizens’ anxiety about the threat to job opportunities and...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural human resources development
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Early Detection of Livestock Diseases by Using Wearable Wireless Sensors

Koji Yoshioka, Osamu Mikami, Shogo Higaki, Tomomi Ozawa
ABSTRACT The scale of animal farming in Japan has changed significantly over recent decades, with a move towards larger, more intensive, primarily due to market pressures. This change has resulted in demand for technologies that can reduce costs and labor inputs while increasing farm productivity...
Country: Japan Topic: Smart agriculture
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Detection and Prediction of Risk Factors Associated with Production Losses Using Production Records on Commercial Pig Farms

Yosuke Sasaki
ABSTRACT Japanese pork production remained flat in recent years, but number of pig farms have decreased and farm size in each farm has increased. In order to improve their production performance, many farms keep their records such as mating, farrowing, and weaning events of sows and mortality or...
Country: Japan Topic: Smart agriculture
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