NEC : 05 AgriTech Efforts for the Next Growth Business(921KB)
January 11, 2023 at 08:30 am
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Business 02
AgriTech
Efforts for the Next Growth Business
Business 02 AgriTech
Achieving Sustainable Agriculture with AI Farming
Market environment
Solution
Food supply-demand
Aging and shrinking
Increasing production
problem caused by
farming population
volume per unit area
population increase
Responding to surging
AgriTech market
Portugal demonstration
experiment in 2020:
fertilizer prices and
in 2027 [5.16T yen]
Crop simulation
Nitrogen fertilizer
reduction of
Annual growth rate:
reduced by 20%
↓
environmental impact
12-13%
(Compared to general farmers'
Agricultural digital twin
average)
Achieving the same
level of farming as expert farmers using AI
Portugal demonstration
experiment in 2022:
Yield amount increased
by 20%
while reducing irrigation
by 15%
NEC aims to create business that generates a consolidated sales of 5 billion yen in this market in 2025
Business 02 AgriTech
Established a joint venture with KAGOME Co., Ltd.
Actively deployed AI farming support worldwide for tomatoes for processing
Started offering services to the world after demonstration
experiment in Portugal
Achieved a 20%
increase
KAGOME
NEC
in
yield amount
Findings related to
Analytics and prediction
while
reducing irrigation
Established in September 2022
tomato farming
technology using AI
by 15%
Started AI-based farming advising to support small-amount,more-frequent irrigation and proposal of services that include automatic irrigation control function
Fertilization
Automation
Irrigation
Future prospect
Aiming for further farming efficiency in addition to automation of irrigation and fertilization as part of farming support
Business 02 AgriTech
Other target crops of CropScope
Applying the know-how from tomato cultivation to other crops Services provided in 11 countries for 14 different crops
Expanding services worldwide in collaboration with various companies and research institutes
Service provided in
11 countries
Conducting sugarcane cultivation with Kubota
project
Portugal
(in Kagoshima) and wheat cultivation withGovernmentMSK
AI farming saves agricultural water, which accounts for about 70% of water consumed around the world.
-> Possibility of contributing to global environmental issue
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