What do we have to do toprotect Japanese agriculture ?

Method・Interviewed teachers who are farmers and who own rice ﬁelds(9 people)
・Sent Email to six Agricultural Production Corporations, Echizen CityHall, JA Takefu
・Sent Email to Fukui Prefectural University Professor
・Searched internet

agewhoof people
who areas
farmingas theirTrendsAveragein people
are farming
their main
jobmain job

10.39 million
people quit farmingin 59 years from1984 to 2020

3.6 years older

ResultAgricultural budget per person in major countries

Current situation in Japan (2)JapanSubsidies for agriculture ⇒ Less than other countries

USFranceChinaKorea

Voice of dissatisfaction from people who arefarming or have farmland
・Low income
No employee retention→・Difficulty in balancing farm andregular work
・Difficult to take care of farmland
・Damage by animals

Result ~Requests to the Administration~
What teachers involved inagriculture hope

What Professor at Fukui
Prefectural University hopes

・Review of Japan's agriculturalsystem

・Measures to secure and(Improvement of food self-suﬃciency) train new farmers
・Stop importing rice fromabroad・Promotion of smart agriculture

・Promotion of smartagriculture

Result ~Initiatives in Fukui Prefecture~・Pioneering community farming(organization rate: 32.5%, 2nd in the nation)
・Establishment of facilities for training and support
for new farmers
・BrandingResult ~summary~present condition：Shortage of labor, aging, low
subsidiesdissatisfaction：Low income, hard to work concurrently
request：promote smart agriculture, secure andfoster new farmers
initiatives in Fukui：Village farming,support facilities ,Branding

Discussion
Recommendation 1: Adopt Smart AgricultureRecommendation 2: Increase government
subsidies
Recommendation 3: Promote large-scale
management by agricultural
production corporations

Discussion
What is Smart Agriculture ...?
Agriculturethat used advanced technologies such as robots and AI.

~Advantages and disadvantages of smart farming~
Advantages

disadvantages

・Resolving labor shortage

・High initial cost・Improve eﬃciency andscale accordingly
・Easy for new workers toenter
・Environmentally-friendly・Advanced technology isrequired

~Advantages and disadvantages of each~
Agricultural Corporation

Sole Proprietorship Farmer

advantages

Advantages・Increased production eﬃciency

・Easy to avoid risk

→ Reduction of labor hours
and production costs

・Easy to add high value

Disadvantages
・Diﬃcult to avoid risk

Disadvantages
・Poor production eﬃciency

Discussion
Unemployment due to AI⇓
agriculture as a receptacle for theunemployed

Discussion
Jobs that are likely to bereplaced by AI

Jobs that are unlikely to be
replaced by AI

AI will replaces
drivers, etc.

unemployedpeople farm
Lack of technology
and knowledge

Women and theelderly cansmart
farmingneed subsidy
Get organizedand save money

Labor shortagein agricultureReferences
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