Should Japan Adopt

Vertical Farming ?

~Give an example and explain Singapore~ Kaito Konno

Hazuku Takagi Soichiro Yoshizawa Misato Soma

Topics

➀Introduction ➁Agriculture in Singapore ③Agriculture in Japan ➃Should we adopt “Vertical farming”?

Introduction

Agricultural Method

Indoors or outdoors At limited space Cultivating many vegetables

Vertical Farming

Sky Greens in Lim Chu Kang Lane, Singapore

Spread‘s facility in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Example

Sky Greens in Lim Chu Kang Lane, Singapore

Example

The height is 6m

A-shape aluminium frame has 24 shelfs

The shelf rotes around frame

Sunlight at the top

Water at the bottom

It uses water and electricity power

Spread‘s facility in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Example

Machine grows and harvest

seedlings automatically

→Reduce labor costs by 50%

Merits

Farmland savings

Labor force saving

Production Energy saving

Merits

Farmland savings

Farming in indoors

→Regardless of climate and land

Farmland is not horizontal but

vertical

→Farmland is unlimited

Merits

Labor force saving Automatically

→No manual labor

→Does not require a lot of workers

Merits

Production

Using nutritious soil

Machine control on a 24-hour basis

Farming is in indoor

→Many production every season.

Merits

Energy saving

Using of natural sunlight

or low electric power

(=only power of a LED bulb)

Used water can be recycled

Merits

Farmland savings

Labor force saving

Production Energy saving

Summary

If agriculture has…

If agriculture has…

Lack of farmland

Lack of labor force

Poor production

High energy

Solve! these problems!

Vertical farming can…

Singaporean Agriculture

Lack of water Lack of farmland

Problems of Singaporean Agriculture

Lack of Water for Agriculture

49

22

21

8

Water Resources(%)

import reservoir NEWwater freshwaterize

Lack of Farmland

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

The rate of farmland(%)

AVERAGE SINGAPORE JAPAN

Japanese Agriculture

Lack of farming population！

Problem of Japanese Agriculture

By the Statistics Bureau (2015)

The proportion of agriculture in industry

Agriculture,

forestry

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industry

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Tertiary

industry

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Primary industry ３％

AGING LACK OF SUCCESSOR

Why Lack of Population ?

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The Problem of Aging in Japan

Average number of age is 66.8 ！

By the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2019)

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2000 2005 2010 2015

By the Statistics Bureau (2015)

Q. Should Japan adopt vertical farming ?

A. YES

In Singapore…

Lack of water and farmland

Lack of water and farmland → Vertical farming

In Japan…

Lack of labor force and aging →no need of manual labor

→ Vertical farming

Conclusion

Singapore

Water

Farmland

Japan

Labor force

Aging

Japan should adopt “vertical farming”.