Japan

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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To be Brain of Agriculture

Soichiro Honda
ABSTRACT Farmnote challenge started form 6 years ago in Japan. At present, we have achieved significant growth by providing herd management systems and sensors for diary and beef farm in Japan. Introduce case examples of Farmnote that provide IoT solutions for dairy and beef farm. We will show how...
Country: Japan Topic: Smart agriculture
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Introduction of Smart Dairy Farming and an Enclosed Diary House with Low Profile Cross Ventilation System

Atsuo Ikeguchi
ABSTRACT Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been introduced into Japanese dairy farming positively in order to improve productivity and to solve the Japanese issues those are lack of workers, prevention of heat load, control of epidemic and so on. Dairy farming is the most...
Country: Japan Topic: Smart agriculture
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