Japan has chosen the technology way (as expected) to overcome its agriculture related issues. The country is still recovering from last year's Tohoku earthquake and the subsequent Tsunami. Giving the two disasters a clean sweep, Japan is all set to re-establish itself in an entirely innovative way. The agriculture ministry of the country is working to create a fully robotic experimental farm on a 600 acre of land that was destroyed by Tsunami.
The project involves removal of salt and depositing oil on the farmland that was once fertile. The government will make the robotic tractors work on the fields to make the land pesticide-free, which will be lit by LEDs. The tractors will be employed to till, sow and reap favourable crops in that region. That's not all. There will be robotic controllers to supervise the whole system.
The plot for the experimental farm is situated in Miyagi prefecture, which is around 200 miles north of Tokyo. This project is very important for Japan as the country has limited agricultural land. According to a Crazy Engineers' report, tech giants of the country including Panasonic, Hitachi, Fujitsu, NEC, Yanmar, Ajinomoto and Ito-Yokado Co and Sharp will be a part of this project. The project requires investment of 10 billion yen and this idea will need a course of six years for successful implementation.
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