Carpeting Cultivation Project
KGIC
Executive Summary
In mountainous areas in Japan and other countries, rice is often grown on terraced slopes.
These terraced slopes have many advantages. However, terraced slopes have increasingly beenabandoned and allowed to deteriorate due to inefficient ways of planting, irrigation, and cultivating.
Moreover, farm workers are dwindling so now, terraced slopes are difficult to maintain. It is required
to make agriculture on terraced slopes efficient. Our business will solve this problem by making it easy
to plant, irrigate, and cultivate, not only rice but other vegetables, by using a small sheet of soil,including seeds and fertilizer.
1. Mission & Objectives
The Carpeting Cultivation Project's mission is to improve productivity and output ofagricultural products grown on terraced slopes, and to make it more efficient and easy to produce riceand vegetables in such areas, and to make larger profit of such products to preserve our traditionaland functional form of agriculture. We will develop this business by cooperating with companies andfarm workers.
Our goal is
1. To introduce our products to half of the small-scale agricultural area in the next 5 years
2. To make it possible to produce harvest twice as many as now
3. To make it possible to make profit twice as many as now
4. To make the proportion of people under 40 years old accounts over 20% of the agricultural
population
2. Products and Services
The products and services provided by the Carpeting Cultivation Project make it efficient toproduce agricultural products in small fields such as rice terrace where existing cannot be used. Wewill suggest introducing a cultivation sheet. There are 2 types of them; for rice, and for vegetables. It ispossible to cultivate agricultural products by only putting these sheets side by side on the growing
area. This sheet contains flat formed fertilizer, that melt into the water in 2 to 3 months. The sheets forvegetables is reticulated, and the agrochemicals, seed, fertilizer is covered by water soluble sheet,respectively. The sheet which wraps the seed dissolves easily compared to the sheet which wraps theagrochemicals and the fertilizer. The sheet for rice is wrapped by a agrochemical- containing film,
which has a dip in the middle. The size is 180×300cm. It is able to roll and keep it. Furthermore, it canbe cut by a scissor to adjust the length easily.

3. Market Analysis
According to the research conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishers in2016, the average age of the agricultural population was 66.8, which has been aging year by year. As aresult, agriculture has been reduced and the 40% of the small-scale agriculture such as terraced field
agriculture has been abandoned. This project shortens time for sowing agrochemicals, fertilizer, andseeds, and besides the task is only to display the sheets, which is very easy. Due to this simple way,people who do agriculture for the first time can also use it easily. Our target is very wide from theyoung to the elderly, who live in the countryside, working in the farm. This is because we have toencourage young people to do agriculture, and to make it easy for elderly people to continue doing
agriculture.
4. Strategy and Implementation
To begin with, we will introduce our products and services to companies supporting farm​workers, and agricultural association. After they tried using and making it better, we will provide ourproducts and services to farm workers in low-price. We will advertise our business by giving a lecture
to the farm workers several times in each places, and making advertisements. We will also refer
opinions of farm workers to improve our products. The area of this project is relatively limited, whichmeans we are close to the customers and is possible to hear their opinions.
5. Management
We will develop our business with companies that wish to contribute to the solution of social​
problems, and will get human resources from the company. Then we will provide our products andservices to small-scale agriculture, and will cooperate with them when advertising. We will keep
improving our products and services. We will spread our business and make it more useful.
6. Financial Plan
The financial plan depends on important assumptions, most of which are shown in the​following table.
・​The target of the 1styear is Hukudashinden
in Nagano, and the 2ndyear is Yotsuyasenmaidain Aichi. From the 3rdyear the target is thewhole country
・​In the 1st year we will
apply to major
companies such as Fujifilm.
・​Development expense
is a rough standard.
・​We will have
instructors to help
agriculture. We cancooperate withagricultural school.
・​We will use capital
investment fordeveloping with major companies. We assume that we can establish our business in the 3rd year.
7. Conclusion
The Carpeting Cultivation Project will promise to make small-scale agriculture more efficientand more high revenue without lacking its advantages. We are sure that investors will have muchmoney back than they have invested. In the future we can improve our skills and advance to othercountries that have the same problem.