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- Number of farmers in decline with each passing generation
Building a Sustainable Agricultural Production System Using Advanced Cultivation Equipment
YANMAR GREEN SYSTEM CO., LTD.
Japan’s agricultural environment is becoming increasingly difficult. Dietary habits are diversifying, the farming population continues to decline, and fertilizer costs are rising. At the same time, urban areas are seeing rapid population growth, increasing the importance of urban agriculture. As a result, there is a growing demand for large-scale agricultural greenhouses that enable stable, efficient production and harvesting, creating a need for new agricultural technologies to meet this demand.
Takamiya Corporation, a comprehensive platform provider of scaffolding and temporary construction equipment, leveraged its construction expertise to establish its Agribusiness Division in 2014. Since then, the company has advanced greenhouse construction and sales. In 2021, under the slogan “Strengthening Japanese agriculture,” the company entered the cultivation business. As part of this effort, TAKAMIYA AGRIBUSINESS PARK (TAP) opened in April 2024 as a comprehensive agricultural hub designed to gather agricultural knowledge and develop sustainable production methods.
Yanmar Green System Co., Ltd., a group company of Yanmar Holdings, aligned with Takamiya’s mission and joined in collaboration.
Specifically, advanced cultivation equipment that reduces environmental impact will be installed in greenhouses built by Takamiya, including the Yanmar Green System’s bottom-water absorption cultivation equipment for tomatoes, which eliminates drainage and requires less water and fertilizer, and elevated cultivation equipment that enables year-round strawberry cultivation using less energy. By combining these solutions with advanced environmental control inside the greenhouses, the collaboration aims to achieve consistent, high-quality yields throughout the year. TAP will cultivate crops such as strawberries and tomatoes, operate the greenhouses jointly with Takamiya, evaluate ways to reduce installation costs, and demonstrate profitable agricultural production models. Using Yanmar Green System’s cultivation equipment, TAP will further reduce the environmental impact and promote a sustainable agricultural production system.