German – Japanese Online-Workshop“Smart Farming”
Date: Tuesday, 29th June 2021
Time: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm CET / 16:00 pm - 19:30 pm JST (online)
Language: German/Japanese with simultaneous translation
Host: Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour, Transport and Digitalisationof Lower Saxony/Germany
Organisation: ECOS
Cooperation partners:•Agrotech Valley Forum e.V.

•Osnabrueck University of Applied Science

Supporter: JETRO
Participants: representatives of companies, research institutions and administration inLower Saxony/Germany and Japan from the field of agricultural technology
Targets:➢ Exchange of information on the current situation in the field of "Smart Farming" inGermany/Lower Saxony and Japan➢ Presentation of demonstration/pilot projects in the field of "Smart Farming" in Lower
Saxony and Japan➢ Initiation of future information exchange and possible R&D cooperation➢ Identify business opportunities

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Background
Autonomous tractors, field robots that fertilise and harvest, and remote-controlled drones
that plant and distribute selective pesticides - digitalisation has long since found its way into
agricultural technology. The high-tech nations Germany and Japan are testing possible applications in ground-breaking demonstration projects and on various experimental fields. Interdisciplinary knowledge and competences are in high demand across national borders. Consequently, the G20 agriculture ministers have identified the digitalisation in agriculture as acentral topic in international cooperation.
Cooperation in the field of smart farming and digitalisation in agriculture between bothcountries provides an interesting potential for mutual learning, R&D projects, regional cooperation as well as business opportunities.
In a bilateral online workshop, German and Japanese experts from science, industry and politics will exchange views on the respective potentials of digitalisation in agriculture, current
strategies and innovations.
Stakeholders of the "Agro-Nordwest" experimental field in Lower Saxony will give an insight
into ongoing projects. The Federal State of Lower Saxony hosts Germany's largest agricultural technology cluster, which includes the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences andthe University of Osnabrück, the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), as
well as global players such as Claas, Amazone or Krone and numerous specialised, innovative
medium-sized companies.
Thus, opportunities for R&D cooperation or strategic alliances with Japanese players and regions as well as business opportunities will be identified.
Registration is already possible:
https://www.ecos.eu/ja/veranstaltungen_j/details_j/smart_farming_j.html

Quelle: https://www.freepik.com / Food photo created by rawpixel.com

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ProgrammeJapanese-German Online Workshop on “Smart Farming”
Time CET

Programme

(JST)

9:00
(16:00)

9:05(16:05)

9:15(16:15)

9:30(16:30)

9:45(16:45)

10:00(17:00)

10:15(17:15)

10:25

ECOS

Technical introduction
Johanna Schilling, ECOS
Welcome by the moderator
Benjamin Kowalski, Manager Farm, Food & Bio Economy, Innovationszentrum Niedersachsen
Greeting Addresses
Ralf Pospich, Head of investment Promotion and Foreign Trade, Ministry
for Economic Affairs, Labour, Transport and Digitalisation of Lower Saxony/Germany
Masaaki Takabatake, General-Director, Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) Berlin
Keynote: Promotion of Smart Agriculture
Kazuyuki Shimamura, Director, Research Promotion Division, Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries Research Council, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestryand Fisheries (MAFF), Japan
Keynote: Current measures in Germany for the introduction of Smart
Farming technologies
Dr. Steffen Beerbaum, Director, Application of Digitalization in Agriculture Division, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), Germany
Q&A
Agricultural Systems of the Future – Field Robotics in PracticeProf. Arno Ruckelshausen, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
Prof. Dieter Trautz, Faculty of Agricultural Science and Landscape Architecture
Osnabrueck University of Applied Science
Fostering Human Resource and Entrepreneurship Education for the Development of Smart Agriculture through the Integration of Agricultureand Engineering
Prof. Takashi Gomi, Director, WISE program, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT)
Before thinking about smart agriculture – What ist farm work?
Prof. Kiyoshi Tajima(Recording), Faculty of Regional Environment Science,
Tokyo University of Agriculture (NODAI)

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10:35(17:30)R&D in Smart Farming - Experimentierfeld Nordwest
Robert Everwand, Cluster Manager, Agrotech Valley Forum e.V.

10:45

Q&A

(17:45)

11:00(18:00)

11:10(18:10)

11:25(18:25)

11:40(18:40)

11:55

BreakNTT Group’s Initiatives Regarding Food and AgricultureTakuya Murayama, Department Manager, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)ISOBUS Solutions for Smart FarmingFrank Meyering, Managing Director, Competence Center ISOBUS e.V.
Kubota’s Smart Agri System
Dr. Satoshi Iida, Senior Technical Advisor, Kubota Corporation(18:55)

Smart Farming at Krone
Torsten Schiermann, KRONE

12:10

Q&A

(19:10)

12:30(19:30)ECOSConcluding remarks/end

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