In Japan, started to gradually replace the software onto the farmers’ pension on robots and unmanned agricultural machinery. This writes Bloomberg News.
This was stated by the Minister of Agriculture of Japan and his colleagues at the meeting Hiroshi Moriyama on G7. She discussed the problem of increasing demand for food. The decision on the gradual replacement of farmers robots was taken due to the fact that the average age of Japanese farmers is 67 years. And many of them, the minister said, leave no successors, retirement.
Japan plans to spend 4 billion yen ($ 37 million) for the year to introduce robots to farms and help in the development of 20 different types of robots, including those who have separated from overripe peaches fresh during harvest.
«If you want to increase farm productivity, when farmers are retiring, they must rely on the developed technology companies. And the government should help them to take the technology, “- said a senior analyst at Mizuho Securities Co. Makiko Tsugato,
According to the minister, the number of uncultivated farmland in the country is 420 thousand. Hectares. In this age of the 65% of manufacturers is 65 years old and older. The lack of young people who wish to engage in agriculture, increases the concerns of the authorities that Japan’s import dependence will only grow. Now, this figure reaches 60%.
Japan’s largest manufacturer of agricultural machinery Kubota Corp. It has developed its first prototype of an autonomous tractor, which can be used in rice fields.
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