Realization of ultra-labor saving and large scale production.Next-generation farming to realize ultra-labor saving and high quality production by utilizing ICT and **Fields: Areas of farmland on which crops are raised. (Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries) “Commercial farmers” means farm households managing cultivated land of 30 a or more, or earning at least 500,000 per year yen from sales of agricultural products. *“Farmers” refers to households engaged in farming and managing cultivated land of 10 a or more, or earning at least 150,000 yen per year from sales of agricultural products. With farmers facing a diverse array of challenges including proper management of fields ** scattered over large areas, improving crop yield and quality, reducing cost and labor, and creating higher added value for produce, support for farmers has become an urgent issue. Along with these trends, the problems of farmers giving up farming and outsourcing farm operations to others, along with cancellations of farmland that has been left fallow, have resulted in an increasing proportion of professional farmers and farming groups with little experience. The number of households with commercial farmers * has fallen drastically from 2.3 million in 2000 to 1.3 million in 2015, and is projected to decrease by half of that figure in the next ten years. The average age of farmers in Japan is 67.
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