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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ジ] Fishery
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Secondary
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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0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
Th
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d p
eop
le Japan’s Farming population
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”.