Paradigm of value-driven and community-based precision farming
by Sakae Shibusawa
International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology (IJARGE), Vol. 3, No. 3/4, 2004

Abstract: This paper describes a Japanese model of community-based precision farming and learning groups of farmers and companies. The community-based precision farming is a new regional farming system to get high profitability and reliability under regional and environmental constraints, promoted by wisdom farmers and technology platform, through creating both information-oriented fields and information-added products, with supply chain management of field to table. Two participating local learning groups are: a technology driven ''Precision farming network of Toyohashi-Atsumi (PFNET)'' in Toyohashi city and a farmers' learning group ''Honjo precision farming society (HPFS)'' in Honjo city. PFNET is aimed at realising a total system of technologies in precision farming with agriculture-linked industries and wisdom and skills of farmers. HPFS (Honjo) strives to produce information-added products and information-oriented fields, and also grows them as new Honjo branded products. The first action was a market research on information-added products through in-shop experiments.

Online publication date: Sun, 23-Jan-2005

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