A Japanese company is executing the world’s first robot controlled farm. The robot facility is designed to produce 11 million heads of lettuce per year.
The lessons to be learned from Japan are as follows:-
The company is expected to ship the first crop in the year 2017. The first farm is in Kameoka.
The new business model will cost by 50 percent of labor costs. The company has also claimed new vegetable factory in Kansai Science city which reduces construction costs by 25 percent and thereby adding energy demand by 30 percent.
The new vegetable factory is 47,300 square feet. The robots handles every step of the process starting from watering seedlings to harvesting crops.
This kyoto-based spread will start operating by the middle of 2017 and produce 30,000 heads of lettuce a day.
This indoor grow house hopes to boost to half of a million lettuce heads daily within five years.
The company has also boosted its website confronting the challenge of producing locally grown vegetables.
Since it is automated completely, Spread says that this new facility will produce 9,000 extra more heads of lettuce each day when comparatively produced in Kameoka.
The main reason for developing and creating this low-cost robot is to cut the labor cost which is very high in some parts of the country.
This locally grown veggies around the world creates a environment friendly system as well as low-cost that enables global expansion.
Though all this is automated seed planting will still be done by people, but the remaining process including harvesting is done by the industrial robots.
The three factors that are to be met to address sustainable farming are-
Social sustainability:- The ability to produce safe food in a stable manner.
Economic sustainability:- The ability to secure stable profits as a business. Finally,
Environmental sustainability:- The preservation of global resources and the environment