Facility Horticultural Agriculture
Japan
Developed by Kochi University of Technology IoP Promotion Center, the Facility Horticultural Agriculture is an IoT and artificial intelligence (AI) based initiative for farm produce and field data management. It's an advanced next-generation greenhouse horticulture by IoP (Internet of Plants) solution which incorporates the latest technology from the Netherlands. The initiative strengthens Kochi's facility horticulture brand and increase farmers' income with industry-academia-government cooperation council for next-generation horticultural agriculture in Kochi Prefecture as the main body, the technical group supports a project to solve IoP research issues such as the “production system/efficiency," "high value-added," distribution system/integrated management."
Lead (category)
Academia/research
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
Kochi University of Technology IoP Promotion Center
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Agriculture
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
Business and governance structure
This initiative is under a Cabinet Office (an agency of the Cabinet of Japan which is responsible for handling the day-to-day affairs of the Cabinet) project being executed and promoted by Kochi University of Technology. .
DI ICT-deliverables format
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Internet of Things / Sensors
Smart greenhouse management
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
Agribusiness / private organization
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
Regional
Kochi Prefecture, Japan
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution